Back to School Time

Summer's over and now it's that time of year when students prepare to head back to classes. Tomorrow is my first day of grad school and I'm pretty psyched. I have a brand-spankin' new notebook, new running shoes to make sure my feet don't hurt as I wander across New York trying to locate my classes, and an apple all shined up and ready for teacher. Since I'm waiting anxiously for school to start up again, here's an excerpt of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's great poem about waiting, "I Am Waiting":

I am waiting for my number to be called

and I am waiting

for the Salvation Army to take over

and I am waiting

for the meek to be blessed

and inherit the earth

without taxes

and I am waiting

for forests and animals

to reclaim the earth as theirs

and I am waiting

for a way to be devised

to destroy all nationalisms

without killing anybody

and I am waiting

for linnets and planets to fall like rain

and I am waiting for lovers and weepers

to lie down together again

in a new rebirth of wonder

Read the complete text of "I Am Waiting" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti here.