Humanities teacher’s assumptions about physics class

My student sent me a pdf

with some physics exercises

by accident, titled:

“Forces and moments”

Not familiar with the subject

I was free

to assume and hope

They must study what charges them

what, in that moment, pushes and

pulls them to do, to feel, to choose

or, how each moment impacts

the centre of their being’s gravity

or, perhaps, how to be

a responsible conductor

and how to allow diffractions

at the edge of life’s obstacles

To discern what are the dynamic

influences that change their body

from the state of rest

and how to hold their own

How to perceive frictions as

insights into their forming

value systems and what

detracts one from fusions

what and who are their generators

and how to be full of joules…

I stopped myself, because

I was too close to making

this poem cheesy and turn the word

joules into jewels or jolliest

still, this physics unit

in that moment

seemed human and gloriously

empowering.