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Dog Grrl!
by
Thomas James Allen

  1. What Once Was Easy
  2. Moss Upon the Brick 1
  3. The Alchemist
  4. My Personal Ecology
  5. Stopping in the Evening by a Snowy Woods
  6. Moss Upon the Brick 2
  7. The Magic Forest
  8. The Poet's Prayer
  9. A Christmas Visitor
  10. Daddy Longlegs
  11. The Philosopher's Lament
  12. Moss Upon the Brick 3
  13. Ol' Sin Nombre
  14. The Alchemist's Shop
  15. Ol' Gran'mama's Stew
  16. The TA's Lament
  17. Transylvania Square
  18. Tremble
  19. Christmas Miracles
  20. Going Home to Mechanicsville
  21. Moss Upon the Brick 4

My other poetry books:
Poems People...
Still Minor

The Teaching Assistant's Lament

Monday's students have no brains,
Tuesday's sections went insane,
Wednesday's chargers do not read,
And Thursday's are not up to speed;
On Fridays, they're all at the beach,
While Saturdays I do not teach...
Yet students on the Sabbath day
Make up for their week-long play,
Getting tanned out in the clover,
Detoxifying a hangover,
So that by Monday they appear
The simple minds I hold so dear!








Notes:
Written 05-1988.

In 1988 I was a teaching assistant in the philosophy department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where the Pacific Ocean laps at the western edge of campus.


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