Email Subject: Randomly Reminded

Hey, Dave! 

What made me think and reach out
to you again was that I happened
to stumble upon this seven years
old turned-in homework, for your
Rust Belt SAGES class; as I read
my marbled words ~ I heard echos
that called back memories to the
scholastic days that ended И May
& I thought you might get a kick
out of it, too, if you are bored
& want so quick, not even called
a trip, closer to a slip, down a
memory lane which inspired me to
write some poetry, & so figuring
I'd pass it along towards origin
of inspiration 4 so short a song 

How've you been? It's Noah Sweet
from Case - It's been quite some 
Time since we last spoke, though
not too, too much has changed on
my end - I've been keeping on up
with my writing, and have really
gone fully into poetry; and this
year, especially, has seen oh~so
plenty a harvest moon bounty, so
it's feeling like the year's all
for me to take some Time to make
up some rhymes, & on missed Time
'fore really writing, for wasn't
being to my self, Real, or be me
watering seeds as funnily enough
your elective course, in which I
was forced, is turning out to be
spinning into my most momentus &
a ventus full of gold dust, used
to invent a bus & trade for Time
2B new process, through which is 
called Morphogenesis when inside
this Genesis of mine covering my
eyes in disguise & enduring days
that were caged while at Case in
a given, set Time ~ was assigned
to go И2 so strange a range that
is weird, at least if used for 1
to store color cores awhile, all
The while old-style clocks, made
Up of gold wires and rocks, keep
watching Sweet's KIDS who endure
Sisyphus grind while, up ladders
we climb on which, running gears
going through, which tear & rend 
rind found inside kind minds and
intertwined with bird-brain kind
who fly by in boring, gray skies 
like Cleveland's canopy, hanging
over buildings that border oh~so
cruel & Blue, engineering school
who, of itself, so full, so made
a science of turning them fodder
KIDS they admit to admit to fill
a classroom with model rockets &
pockets of mean deans using them
to crush good men & Sweet dreams
& charging those children who're
fooled by bankers, so cruel; now
treated as if little more than a
monkey, on whom which, they test
those terrible tools just 'cause
they can and have nothing better
left to plan than turn KIDS into
the laboratory's Bitch ~ knowing
we won't ditch school nor snitch
on you even though, treated like
unpaid fools groveling face down
on unmopped floors, & so implore
for just 1 free Friday so to fly
away, not to play, but as to say
final goodbye to grandma who has
signed off on her journal's last
date & nothing to say, & so took
her Time's last sigh on this eve
of semester finals used 2 decide
both class outcome & my survival

I hope Time's been
treating you, both
Good & well, and I
hope you might get
just a bit of suga
from my §weet word

A11 the best! Noah

Email that inspired, and so used as this poem’s foundation

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