My Students’ Apathy
Apathy is
Not nothing
It is a coat
You carry
Into class
Heft down the
Hallway of near
Death TV
Tunneling to
The next episode
You can be
So close to
Death you
Smell his
Lunch taco
There are no
Coathooks here
I am the nail
Where you will
Hang your heart
–Ticky Kennedy
Reclusive Poet in Residence
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NOTE
Since the pandemic teachers find “the ‘acting out’ among some students is far less concerning than the sheer apathy they have encountered.” The New York Times, The Students Returned, but the Fallout From a Long Disruption Remained.
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