Attention All Students by Jeannie Vanasco via Little Star Journal

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Attention All Students

The bugle trumpeting war is not the lunch bell.

The beast sharpening his hooves in the science wing is the new mascot.

Anxiety is not an excuse for truancy.

The test about democracy has been postponed.

If you witness the enemy in the swimming pool, inform your assistant principal at once.

This week field trips to the fallout shelters have been canceled.

Do not disturb the music teachers dying on the football field; their fear is contagious.

All wills without a name will be marked incomplete.

The Armageddon drill will begin shortly.

 
“Attention All Students” originally appeared in Little Star Journal and has been reprinted here with permission of the author.
 
Jeannie Vanasco Poetry Little Start JournalJeannie Vanasco is writing a memoir involving a necronym, psychosis, and an artificial eye. An excerpted version appears in the current issue of The Believer. Her other writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, and elsewhere.
 
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