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Today, I learned that Plato had taught

that the earth is spherical.

I did not know that until today,
although I did spend some weeks reading

Plato's Dialogues in a course called Classics, taught

(despite the objections of certain parental haters)

in september of nineteen seventy-four.

But I did not listen to the lectures with much attention

because the beautiful Lynn M--- sat next to me

(by random arrangement of alphabetical seating);

Lynn, who was gorgeous, and shy, and beautiful;

who always wore the tightest jeans

with the widest bell-bottom cuffs (usually frayed);

and cork-platform, open-toed sandals

(four days of patterned or stripey socks;

but, one day each week, sheer tan nylons

with reinforced toes!,

despite the dictations of fashion magazines)

and always less than five minutes

after the final bell had rung and the lecture commenced,

she slipped those platform sandals off her feet.

Starward

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