Anais Vionet Poet Free verse

Getting Ready

With three more weeks of holiday vacation,
Lisa and I’ve started studying 5 hours a day.
You can read a novel for atmosphere
but you have to puzzle over and wring-out academic books
- with their essays and worksheets after every chapter.
I feel a simultaneous focus and boredom
- but the pull of school is staggering
- like resisting it could break me apart.

you can’t wait - all around the country, thousands of Yalies are already back hard at it

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Rico Leffanta January 7, 2022 at 10:29 AM Textbooks are filled with errors, so I hope you find them before others do! Aloha!

Marshall Iftekhar Ahmed January 7, 2022 at 10:28 AM Corona, Omicron, what else will come to devastate us! "but the pull of school is staggering - like resisting it could break me apart." beautiful expression and expressing your love for school, i think. Such pressure! wishing you good luck. Thanks - Marshall. Anais Vionet January 7, 2022 at 11:46 AM Thank you Marshall. The start of classes have been delayed and then they'll be virtual for a while - but I'm excited to get back!

Quoth Theraven January 7, 2022 at 7:27 AM Anais, A good use of your hours; knowledge gained. Though you likely won't ever use more than 20% of it. Always a student of life be, but live, and do it now. ~~ "Every action has its pleasures and its price." -Socrates Anais Vionet January 7, 2022 at 9:44 AM We'd still be studying but there are a BILLION other things we'd be doing without omicron. You comment is more poetic than my piece!