education frustration

it was the same feeling
as before
that one time
i made my english teacher cry
because we weren't treating literature
with the proper respect
and i couldn't sit back
and not defend the beauty
of wilder
and emily webb

so today
i was horrified
as you sliced it open
watching the brutal dissection
red and raw underneath

mystic poetry doesn't need categories.

you were taking apart
something i could never put back together