You marvel at the dragon
its scales used for shields
and ask how – if there is only one dragon
who protects their world at the movie’s end
they came by the scales?
He explains: ‘They were shed’
“The Ingenuousness of the Child” – cf. Anarchist Education and the Modern School
Each weekend he joins a world
of 9 by 9 block and coordinates
and you don’t know where this leads
back to this world.
He reminds you of who you are not
when he speaks in math
and its blocks and coordinates.
“From the Unlearned Un-man to a Pedagogy without Moulding” – cf. Out of the Ruins
In writing this now you turn to school
schooling and deschooling
society relishing the error in
the aneducation bibliography
that attributes the book to an artist
“Who Punk Forgot” – cf. Teaching Resistance
You preach unschooling daily
yet here at the heart of it all
you raise your shield
“Let the Riots Begin!” – cf. Anarchist Pedagogies
Yet just like the artist and the poet
who once threw a party
in friendship
and threw Snickers bars
to their gathered friends
You remember how the shield
can be made of shed dragon scales
and there is a 9 by 9 truth
for him that you cannot see
and that you attend his
descaling school
that he made just for you
“Reciprocal awareness” – cf. Anarchism and Education – A Philosophical Perspective
