February 11 - What do You Mean When You Ask for Wit?

What do you mean when you ask for wit? or for courage? I will comb my hair back again and look at the assignment with an eyebrow subtly raised that will not say to you, my English Teacher, that I think this assignment might be a little silly.  I have better things to worry about than analyzing fiction with wit an courage.  And now I stare out the window and dream of the gentle wind (not breeze) that brings a false summer morning cold through the leaves of a Japanese maple that I misidentified as a crab apple tree (it might have been the other way around) in fifth grade because I did not trust myself.