Thomas Lux

Don't recall reading that in HS Latin class.
If implicit could be nailed to the wall, it was implicit
you took the teacher's word for it.
I was a poor student
and needed extra tutoring.
On Saturday mornings,
a defrocked priest in the family
drilled me at his mother's house.
Nullius in verba never came up.
I required help with algebra, too.
I didn't believe an X could equal a Y.
I still don't. In fact, I believe
algebra is a conspiracy,
of what and by whom I can't say here,
but I have proof. Latin, at least, is a language.
A good language, and it isn't dead.
Read Catullus. Take my word for it,
it's anything but dead!