doesn't care about spelling,
my son would
tell me in the sixth grade
as i looked at his
test paper,
his handwriting no different
than a chicken running
across the paper after
stepping in ink.
she said there are no
wrong answers.
everyone else got an A too.
nobody fails
in her class, he said smiling.
she said there are no
mistakes. it's the effort
that counts.
which made me think
of Miles Davis,
who said there are no
mistakes
in his music. but he was
talking about jazz
and blowing the horn,
not communicating with
words.
great i told my son,
as his mother pinned the test next
to his participation trophies
on the shelf.
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