"The Violence of English Class"

"What a day to be alive." -Anon

The first game was

Shiritori

using English words.

The point of the game

was to string together as many words

as possible

in the allotted time.

For example,

"mountain"

could be followed by

"notebook"

which could be followed by

"key"

which could be followed by

"yellow"

and so forth.

Once the word

"GO!"

left my lips,

the classroom erupted.

The floor shook

as the boys raced each other to the chalkboard,

ramming into one another,

sending papers flying,

desks sprawling,

shouting gleefully as they punched,

grabbed hair,

shouldered each other's faces...

- - -

I'm pleased to report,

the only casualties

were a few pieces of chalk,

splintered beneath a desk,

broken in their white and yellow dust,

a sign of the violence that ensued

in the 2nd-Year English classroom today.

- - -

And tomorrow,

I'm scheduled to play it again.

Better wash down my cornflakes with some Felix come morning time.

{Desk via Mary Alice}

{Warriors via The Last Samurai}