It happened one day while locked safely in the classroom
with all the other little children.  I remember it vividly;
I was asked by the teacher to stand and answer a question
(a short division.)  I stood to find...  I don't know how to
put this tactfully... A spontaneous engorgement of the imaginative
faculties.  Jaws dropped across the classroom and the loud
laughter began.
	The engorgement, as you can see, has proved sustained.
Between the breath of sweating children and the bloated summer
sun falls the shadow.  I hear that loud laughter every day of
my life.