I want to get into the ghost vibe.
So I'm going to start with--
I didn't intend to, but I will.
This one's called "The Education"
and it's after the great Kim Hyesoon,
who wrote a great poem called "Ghost School."
"The Education.
Ghost teacher calls me permanently unfinished.
Ghost rector nicknames me tiny incapable.
A fallen ghost basically adds up to nothing, 1, 1, 1.
Our eyelashes fall.
And our voices drip from the inner faucets of ourselves
a few times and then no more.
Sometimes I feel like an empty speech
bubble, an invisible comic strip so no one laughs.
Many of us simply want to read our poetry by the river, 1, 1,
1.
Many of us want to say so long to this curriculum
without fingerprints nor with one last breath spared.
Many of us just want to read our poetry
by the river to close our eyes and be just as such."