Last week our small class trekked to Iowa City to experience it fully, to make observations about its residents, its student population, its sights, its smells, it essence. My observations are what follows:
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You must learn to continue. left Hard. right Gray. left Coarse. right Numb. Stare at the dirt, the fractured cement, the tired city sidewalk. Your eyes glaze your senses dull you can’t lift your churning head. Great! Perfect! Don’t look up. Notice your feet. How fast do they flap against the floor? Does the color of your shoe complement the walkway’s cold gray? Are you quickly tiptoeing, gliding, or do you sink into each step, too tired to resist obligation’s rough shove? Take out your cell phone. Whether or not you need to use it, whether or not the sun’s unseasonably intense glare has transformed your screen into a small rectangular impractical mirror, stare. Pretend to be popular. Keep those eyes down! If you have internet on your phone, without pausing you must always keep moving, explore the wonders of the wide world on the wonderful wide web. Yes, that shiny blue four-door sedan almost ran you over, spilling your juicy innards, flattening your flesh. As trained, you didn’t look up from your phone. Good for you! You avoided the perils of rubber tires on your chest and you got to see your bestie’s new Facebook status!
There is beauty all around you. You will learn to ignore it. To you the quivering trees, the carefully painted sunset, the fiery fall leaves, the lavender perfume, the comforting breeze hugging your shoulders, the attractive peers you could have made love to, the rosebud red, the popsicle green, the midnight blue, the deep sea turquoise, the sunflower yellow, colors that would make your heart stop, the distant laughter bubbling, those gorgeous eyes, are a gray foggy haze. Walk in a cloud. Nothing else matters but where you are going going going left right going left right keep left going right eyes left down
Right?
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