Caverns

“the lord will cast her

into the lake of fire!”

referring to another.

A girl

egregious in her snark,

a spark. a

SHUT. UP.

marched directly through

a silent, fire drill.

Today, hardly less eventful,

four first grade minds are asked

to retrieve, arbitrarily,  

a word that rhymes with brick.

in the library,

of all the caverns, sterile and crowded.

I, the defeated leader,

drive home

to draw maps for another week.