walking, chatting, groups of students, some lost in conversation, others somewhere off in their minds; reaching, searching, wondering, wanting, asking, sometimes received or receiving -- like ants on an anthill, each to their owns tasks and lives.
on an early morning, a solitary walker, no longer a student, and with none to converse with; aching, empty, overwhelmed, wanting, past asking, unreceivable -- like a roach in the corpse of a dead building, only seeming alive from a distance.
time, passing like a curtain between acts -- those who leave never really learn; those who learn never really leave
