Paycheque
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Three days before the semester started The scheduled writing teacher departed She got a real writing job And my mom Took a nepotistic leap By suggesting me As a replacement To the Hiring committee They offered me the job What else could they do? I got the textbook And read it through Adjusted the syllabus and Tried doing all the class assignments Myself Before I showed up A day later for the first day Of class I wasn't a new teacher For five years now I'd been teaching creative arts At a homeless youth drop-in centre And at two alternative high schools For gay, lesbian, transgendered And other kids who wanted Somewhere else to go But I only did that a couple days a week For a few hours Each day Pulling myself up from My puddle of fatigue The pain in my lymph nodes Would recede While I was teaching Just like I never felt itchy Even if I had crabs When I was on the stage Singing or delivering lines In reverie or rage Channeling another moment Into this moment Another presence Into the present My first bi-monthly cheque From the university Was for more money Than I'd seen In the last three months combined And it came at just the right time The hand-me-down car From my parents Had died And for the first time They didn't have a new used car To pass my way Not that they hadn't help me out My dad advised me on how to negotiate Myself into my first new car And my first new car payments Added to the mortgage And the strata fees And my carefully controlled other living expense I could have taken out a second mortgage But now, instead I could make extra mortgage payments And it occurred to me that I didn't need keep in touch With an ex Who worked for a clothing company Where he could get free clothes for me Because I had the height and width of a model How proud he had seemed to be Telling his friends About my measurements It had made me Sad and angry The way he Looked at me Suddenly I could go on first dates To restaurants And pay my own way And then walk away And not look back If that's what I wanted to do Not as if that hadn't been an option before I knew But now a date wasn't a date It was just meeting someone new And having something to do And having someone to do it with too Nothing was leading Anywhere Everything was here
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