Taylor+Mahili+Poem

media type="youtube" key="_1MHVqAWGmI" height="315" width="420" A grand piano wrapped in quilted pads by movers,

tied up with canvas straps—like classical music’s

birthday gift to the criminally insane—

is gently nudged without its legs

out an eighth‐floor window on 62nd street. It dangles in April air from the neck of the movers’ crane,

Chopin-­‐shiny black lacquer squares

and dirty white crisscross patterns hanging like the second‐to­‐last

note of a concerto played on the edge of the seat,

the edge of tears, the edge of eight stories up going over—

it’s a piano being pushed out of a window

and lowered down onto a flatbed truck!—and

I’m trying to teach math in the building across the street. Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned?

All the greatest common factors are delivered by

long‐necked cranes and flatbed trucks

or come through everything, even air.

Like snow. See, snow falls for the first time every year, and every year

my students rush to the window

as if snow were more interesting than math,

which, of course, it is. So please. Let me teach like a Steinway,

spinning slowly in April air,

so almost-­‐falling, so hinderingly

dangling from the neck of the movers’ crane.

So on the edge of losing everything. Let me teach like the first snow, falling.

This poem is about a distraction students who wont care about school work or anything going  on in this poem can relate to every student who just dozes off when there teacher is speaking in class ove r 50 % of kids in classrooms don't remember what their teacher was talking about or explaining that topic or subject I picked this poem because i sometimes do that in class but i mostly don't this poem also talks about the frustration of some teachers when kids always try to find some way of distracting other people and the teacher and this poem also talks about everyday distraction outside of the classroom and most kids think that is more interesting then learning because one day if you don't finish school you could be that person with the crane lifting the piano on the flatbed truck.

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