Dream poem 111 How Not to Teach

At art college
A student is expecting me to say something constructive about his painting.

It looks something like this
Half figure, a guitar, a chain link fence and sky.

I say to him
The fence needs to be more in front of the figure
So it can cast a shadow on the form
The sky needs to start darker at the very top
And get lighter where it is near the sun
And get darker again where it hits the horizon.

He thinks about it for a moment
And agrees.


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