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We were speaking at dinner about
teaching and administration

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and things that happen and
things that don't happen.

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And I'm seeing this poem
that I sort of wrote/found

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during a department meeting.

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It was a meeting about how
to interact with students

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in distress, which is
a very serious topic,

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but was completely evacuated of
anything meaningful by the fact

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that we were in a department
meeting learning about how

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to do things, how to have
empathy, as if you can break it

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down into certain steps.

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This poem is called
"Advisory Protocol."

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"Remember that it is
not your responsibility

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to account for the
severely troubled.

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You need only swallow enough
needles and enough bread.

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The first disruption will
resemble a silver collapse

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of the inner ear.

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Then it enters the room.

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In such cases, you
must hold yourself

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in a state of tonic immobility,
letting your remaining teeth

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fall to the carpet.

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If you find yourself shrinking
to the thinness of a soap leaf,

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if you perceive
your tongue halting

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at its progress across
the window pane,

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you may have entered a
rare or acute oscillation.

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Try to exit firmly
and with respect.

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In this, mark your training.

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Mark that each of your hands
is a perianth of light.

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Where you want it to go can't
be reached by lip gloss anymore.

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Get up, get up.

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You'll have to climb."