Back to the Basics / Amelia Ostling

Back to the Basics

Amelia Ostling

Flashcard, flash card, flip card flip flipping back and back over front ya and ye and yae and k, g, gg

In English class they’ve read The Outsiders Outsider she sits on the outside ring ring ringing in her ears the difference between ch and j between ya ye and yae her fingers flip flip flipping the flipping flashcards Outsiders unopened the cover she eyed the words but her head said it’s ya, ye and yae today

Latin fourth block her notebook is

iacio, iacere, ieci (3) to throw she wants

to throw the flashcards flip cards and numero, numerare, numeravi (1) to count counters

she counts gae mari bun in her notebook she counts numbers to eight thousand

seven hundred and two she’s counted for weeks declension two with - us and - i and - o Haley, what is the perfect tense of bibo? Bibi, in her head. Bi. Bi, means rain. It’s raining today today is ya ye and yae Wait,

what’s the difference?

A bench seat at lunch she asks Google, what am I doing wrong?

Google ‘Historically these two vowels had different pronunciations, but in the modern Seoul dialect they are practically indistinguish-able’

she writes that: indistinguishable: a word she underlines once, word twice, then flip flips over the flipping flash (flip) card and ya and ye and yae and a and e and ae and,

Goddammit.