grone

What's that there?

A vision from the past

It's pity-the-fool Moussa in his middle school class

A thin, smooth skinned hand

Reaches in and

Pulls a book out of the desk

He cannonballs back into the chapter he was on

The teacher barks

"Put the book back where it was from"

That's a bittersweet one

To be looking back upon

Because I can't seem to read a damn book now that I'm grown