Schooling
I attended the outdoors
got referred to a committee to examine idling
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 2 May 1666
Dave Bonta
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I attended the outdoors
got referred to a committee to examine idling
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Wednesday 2 May 1666
The joke in "Schooling" lies in how it plays with the word "attended." We usually attend a school, a lecture, a meeting. Here the speaker attends "the outdoors," as if the woods or fields were a class worth showing up for. It's a small, quietly cheeky claim: this is where the real learning happens.
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