oh no, school is great! stay in school! i did (besides one semester where i ran away to nyc to work at the olive garden/“be a writer” (no really all I did was work at the olive garden)) and now I’m a genius!
eileen myles liked school and thought it was eternal poetry. wanna know what eileen wrote about school in “inferno”? ok here:
“I loved how back in college you could just do nothing. You didn’t have to decide you were a poet or a whore or anything. That’s what was so great looking back on the golden age of college three years ago. Sure – reading and writing my papers etcetera was good and everything but what was REALLY great back then was how you could just suddenly decide to be a doctor. That’s how it felt. You could join the Peace Corps. And you were just thinking about it. You didn’t have to do things. So it was safe. College was a school of possibility. I never had this before. Naturally I was terrified of it ending. I sat in the little sub shop in an alley behind UMass eating my sandwich, looking over at the workers who ate there too and appreciating that i was part of what they saw: asshole college kids wasting time while they worked and I just totally loved that view. I wanted to keep on beng it now and forever and I had thanks to poetry.”
