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To: epicure who wrote (1336)	7/25/2001 9:14:48 AM
From: Poet	Respond to of 1857

It's an anthology, then? Did you read the poem I posted here to Neo this morning? It's by Robert Hayden and I think you'd like it.

To: epicure who wrote (1336)	7/25/2001 4:36:13 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1857

A treat for you, X: Grading by John Ridland "Grading’s no problem. An experienced teacher can grade anything." An experienced teacher. He grades the cat on being cat (straight A), the grapefruit on juiciness (B+) and sweetness (B), his wife on sleeping soundly (last night, D -); he grades the morning (C +, be more definite), the dog for coming quickly when it’s called (A-, good dog, good dog), for fetching the paper (Fetch it!--F). In broad daylight he grades the moon last night at midnight. Well defined, clear, and complete. (pure A, pure A); his breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Pass); his shoes (Unsatisfactory); of course he grades the morning paper (low C for content, C for form); the window (B, maybe B-, try to be more imaginative). He grades the way he drives to school (B+ woops, D), the radio-- rather, its choice of music (A + , for Segovia’s guitar followed by Goodman’s clarinet), the fat opossum in the road (plain D for dead), the old man trudging in red sweatsuit and jogging shoes (Not Pass), the parking lot (OK), colleagues for cordiality (A, B, C, D, none of the above) and courage in the line of duty (withheld: cf. the Privacy Act). He’s graded God (You should do better than this, with Your Advantages. Try to improve by putting more of Yourself into it, C-); and homo sapiens (barely passing, YOU ARE IN TROUBLE!); and himself (Delivery, B; Coherence, C; Organization, D; Good Will, A! A!), and grades his grading (C, inflated, whimsical), his life (B+ as far as it goes, keep going), tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (Where’s your outline? C, no, Incomplete. Please see me soon.)