English lesson Mike Huett

Mike Huett

English Lesson

Imagine you’re a rock, he said. I tried to think hard, solid, as you do. A struggle, for I didn’t feel hard, or solid Back then, I was the kid who jumped away, as you appeared aside the desk. That startled boy, jumping so often, you even asked why? But, I knew the drill, and didn’t talk to strangers I never wrote that poem, imagining you’d say; startled, jumping rocks, don’t exist, right after I’d jumped away, from a thump, that also didn’t exist