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28 November 2020Calvin OlsenCOVID-19, haiku, pandemic, poem, Poetry, social distancing, sucks, teaching, zoom Leave a comment

Teaching on Zoom sucks.
No other way to put it:
Teaching on Zoom sucks.

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29 August 2020Calvin Olsenankles, Calvin Olsen, come on and zoom, COVID-19, haiku, meetings, pandemic, poem, Poetry, right, school, sitting, social distancing, swelling, teaching, zoom Leave a comment

I have been sitting
On Zoom meetings for so long
My right ankle swells

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29 August 2020Calvin Olsenboilerplate, Calvin Olsen, COVID-19, filling, haiku, long, pandemic, poem, Poetry, slow, social distancing, syllabus, teaching, tedium, text, University, writing Leave a comment

New course syllabus
Slowly fills with text—COVID
Boilerplate so long

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsencap, cheap, coarse, cords, desk, gray, haiku, HDMI, holes, lost, poem, Poetry, slide, teaching, technology Leave a comment

HDMI cord
Slides against the gray desk’s hole
(Coarse ’cause the cap’s lost)

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26 February 2020Calvin Olsenfreakin markers, haiku, lesser of two evils, markers, next, poem, Poetry, streaking, streaks, teaching, whiteboard, why, worse, writing Leave a comment

Whiteboard marker sucks—
The next one is worse, lesser
Of two evils streaks

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29 January 2020Calvin Olsendry, dry erase, erase, haiku, marker, negative, poem, Poetry, teaching, whiteboard Leave a comment

Dry erase marker
Becomes its own negative
As it gets erased

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22 August 2019Calvin Olsenfamily, games, great grandma, haiku, learning, love, mom, old, poem, Poetry, teaching, toddler Leave a comment

Toddler’s great grandma
Teaches her to play a game
Older than her mom

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10 August 2016Calvin OlsenAfrica, giraffe, haiku, lunch, poem, Poetry, skeleton, skull, teaching, twelve Leave a comment

Giraffe skull, intact
Catches twelve kids’ attention
Near as much as lunch

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4 November 2015Calvin Olsenbike, Books, class, Dostoevsky, Dostoyevsky, exercise, gym, haiku, literature, poem, Poetry, reading, Russian, Russian literature, stationary bike, teacher, teaching, workout Leave a comment

Stationary bike
Dostoyevsky through the hills
Strange teacher yelling

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1 July 2015Calvin OlsenBeethoven, Music, student, stupid questions, teacher, teaching Leave a comment

One of my students
Asks me who Beethoven is
“Look it up.” He does.

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