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| The professor is waving his arms. His eyes burn like falling cinders, like sunlight through cracked glass in the attic of a crumbling mansion. The brittle girl in the back of the room stares at him with total comprehension. She thinks, "soapcake." She forms the word "bootheel" with her thin, shapely lips, envisions the rook in rainy weather, the incandescent bodies of goddesses rising from chained bay waters. Nearby, an alert housewife, feeling the fabric of blouse brush across sensitive nipples, recalls the glamour of sins, past and present: thin crust of blood atop the fetus's freshly-hatched head, blonde virgin's midnight rendezvous with her saturnine inquisitor-- our wooden savior's delicate thighs. The air crackles with a host of emanations. And now, all along the front row, a phalanx of football poets is preparing to tackle the exhilarated teacher should those wires once again burn completely through their casings and ravage his carefully composed mind with a wildfire of feeling. |
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| Philip Tabakow is Assistant Professor
of English.
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