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why swarthmore? why? why?

my mom sent me on a college tour

end of my junior year in high school

I visited my brother at Amherst

white bread.

I stopped by

flakey bard; drugs jane's addiction and trees

lukewarm vassar with a beautiful library

distractingly deviant reed

peculiar new college

I visited swarthmore,
stayed with a friend from high school,

Mike Murphy
in his off campus apartment.

He was living with a german/philosophy/cultural studies major

Joe Razza
intensely thoughtful guy
with a large patch of long little dreads

from DC

I spent three days at Swarthmore,

never saw the inside of a dorm,

never ate a meal in the cafeteria

I went to one class
microeconomics, a bit over my head

I think I raised my hand only once.

I spent most of the time in the apartment

talking with Joe
he seemed the smartest guy I'd ever met

brains and passion

and patience
he persistently prodded my politics

what did community service mean?

whose community was I serving?

I had great intentions

but I wasn't watching my step

Mike told me later
that guy could have gone to school anywhere

I damn well believed it.

that mutherfucker chose swarthmore
he was the most intense mind I'd met in years

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