Scott Simpson · Poetry

The Day I Taught Electricity

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I hated it— resistors, current,

invisible spark. The book bored me.

The diagrams bored them. So I dumped

wires and batteries on the table

like kindling.

Let the sparks come from them, not me.

They made circuits like magicians. Laughed

when things lit up. Swore they’d invented

the light bulb.

And I believed them. Because that day,

I saw the fire.