Mrs. Arnold, one comment please! <br />In your insistence that we learn to write in ink <br />During that frightful transition sometimes called middle school <br />You could not know how severly the world would change <br />Even after you were in your grave. <br /> <br />So while the enthronement of ink's nonfading virture <br />Is nice and appropriate for history and many social things <br />Your love could not know Viet Nam would be my war <br />And pencil power would save me from it. <br /> <br />For though much maligned in my thinking which was yours <br />The humble pencil has two stellar virtues with all due respect to ink technology <br />The leaded line is faint but more than adequate to a day's survival <br />And even more important submits comfortably in change <br />To its eraser's power.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pencil-power/
