At the Chagall exhibit in Rome,a docent was lecturing to
a group of Italian kids,
who couldn't get close enough
or eat more of the words
from her energetic mouth.
Some religiously jotted
notes as she enthusiastically
talked about the masterpiece.
Plop, a few days later,
I land in the Atlanta airport, walking
by an impassioned print by Howard Finster
but soon am (sadly) assaulted by
a noisy/smelly world of fast food and
sickly and puffy looking young and old
and CNN comes on about
the 250 lb 7 year old that might
be taken away from his mom
because she's not feeding
him
right,
and I am overwhelmed (and depressed)
by how far we are from
educating our youth
and I talk to my wife (and daughter)
about starting a school for infants
(and their parents)
and then I see one shimmer
of hope, one young, good looking kid,
oblivious to the noise/smell,
CNN on the 250 lb 7 year old
and how Anne Nicole Smith
died,
a kid who has escaped a 2007
"wasteland" into the throws
of a good book.
