lineages

dear history: stop vomitting numbers into my hands.  my head is pounding and i'm drowning in the undertow of memoriesgonerancid and the rank of moldy holidays.  education is falling through the cracks.  it doesn't matter anymore when dinosaurs died out or columbus first sailed the ocean blue (because really, pirates and adventures are more entertaining than fact and we fare better as predators anyway).  my mind is filled with youcan'twritethis and don'tsaythat dilemmas; i can't hope to cram president eisenhower's birthday in among the masses of other knowledge i'll never find cause to use.  i