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Eating brownies and drinking coffee.

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Thursday afternoon and I’ve completely lost my will to work.  Television and reading for class both seemed unappetizing.  My friend Andy appeared at my door.

‘There’s a poetry reading downtown in the bookstore.  Want to go”

‘Sure,’ I say.  I hadn’t opened my books anyway.

‘It’s the students from the Advanced Poetry Workshop.  They’re doing a reading with their professor,’ he added.

We sat among a healthy group of students, faculty, and Hamilton residents, all joined by a common appreciation for poetry.  Just a different way to spend a somewhat overcast afternoon.  Eating brownies, drinking coffee, and sitting amongst friends.

Andy and I left an hour later, feeling a little more cultured and far more enlightened.  Not quite enlightened enough to do work though.