PEDAGOGY

Free Table

FROM THE DESK OF KATHERINE TRASHKINS

Detour with me
past the labs we
still have three more minutes.

Grateful waste of academics,
boastful glow of obsolescence,
timelessness of science present,
treasures in a hallway on a table labeled FREE.

Petri dishes coasters fit or
yellow textbook tear-outs lined with
découpage the bottom parts
roommate names and birthday art
for keeping pendant necklaces and dirt and pins and pills.
Plus, silver metal ashtrays caps, as luck would have, completed sets.
Pipette! Pipette! Oh, better yet!
A stack of unused pocket folders gloat the host and panel speakers at a past event.

From textbook excise chunk of center, straight-edge razors bookstore stolen,
swim-gym locker, scars all swollen, tie it up with ribbon, put it in a fashion show.
Glossy models, textbook middles, varnish bottles, furnished bedroom,
wooden chair leg half collaged, up one side of the seat then gone, new tenants sitting in it.

Is sponsorship by colleges not garbage then or is it?
Flourishing between the lines, between class-stop and -starting times,
to novel usages confined, to academic merit blind,
resurrected, redefined, throw it away and then make it alive!
Here knowledge must ferment, reject, respect its once requirements,
give reverence to mystery. Teach theories of biography. Experimental history.
Let memory romanticized ideal and really science be,
released from unreal certainties:
Its records and the means with taken closed to reinterpretation,
farthest field from observation, yet the most concrete?

In rusty dust expensive once, in progress is replaced with text upset and fact erased.
Every lusty new edition always must be incomplete.

Some say in sanity is when you're doing something that, if you keep doing it, it will cause you to die.

they realized the bag lady in huntington had money in the bank and said OOOH, shes mentally ill

but lots of people smoke, smoking doesn't make you mentally ill. If lots of people do it, it's not stigmatized. If no one else does, the people who do must be crazy. That's the definition of mental illness.

DSM- just a money making campaign, definitions meaningless and dont matter

Warehousing sick children and experimenting on them, now kids go back, man convicted of having mental illness, (accused of murder, but they wanted him in jail bc he acted weird) had worked there

NYC Poems

Yes I see you crouching there
In your vintage pencil skirt
With your wheatpaste paintbrush in your

brown

paper

bag

Spray paint on a corrugated metal door:
I can hear inside

Good book with a ripped black cover
You deserve black tape