poem || David Jalajel

 
desire
 
masking tape stopwatches metre sticks
for keeping time devices tracking down
how we determine where and when the cart
enters the photogate to clock reactions
of calling every student to the desk
and tests for time thru cones and ready set
to go one will effectively describe
a number of materials must be
within easy reach as if lens paper
and histologic slides contain desired
cells or tissues when your needs include
what modelling mathematic motions really
only allows a stopwatch and your bodies
and any of the rules you’d like to change