Two of a Kind

"My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt."  ~George Bernard Shaw

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The Memoirs of Jesse James
by Richard Brautigan

I remember all those thousands of hours
I spent in grade school watching the clock
waiting for recess or lunch or to go home.
Waiting: for anything but school.
My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James
for all the time they stole from me.