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.