The intensity
on your face
is deafening, Nicholas Hall!
What? Huh?
If only you were concentrating as much
on The Watsons Go to Birmingham
as you were on that notebook of yours.
Care to show us what you’ve been working on?
It must be good, because your pencil’s been
perpendicular for a good part of my class.
Come up here. And bring
your notebook with you.