I wish I was a star Not the kind on stage Where crowds and crowds Shouted and clapped And every time I looked around I had another photo shoot Or interview or somebody wanted me To do something important… But the kind floating Quietly around the sky Twinkling at the...

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I laugh with my students…I hope never at…whenthey tell me they are having Writer’s Block…No SuchThing…I declare…that’s only a sign…of not enoughknowledge…go do your research…and to me that’s theend…yet…I am having Writer’s Block…because I wantso much…to write the perfect introduction…to one ofthe nicest young men I knowDo I start twenty...