Junkyard Quotes 2 & 3, Week 2

The first of my junkyard quotes for this post came from my first class of the day: Studies in Grammar. Though it is a phrase I've heard many times (and often considering my major), I never really thought about just how interesting it sounds until today when Dr. Newton said "word order." He said it so quickly that I had to replay in my head what he'd said and finally discovered the phrase. Because he said it so quickly, I heard not what the words meant but how they sounded together, and I really loved it!

The second quote for today I actually found written on the women's bathroom wall on the first floor of Pafford. In one stall, a girl wrote, "What do you wish?" There were several answers written around this question, some faded from where the maintenance employees had painted over the writing. But above all of this writing, someone had posted in black magic marker, "I wish they'd stop painting over our wishes." I would love to use this idea in a poem, though I would have to change some of the abstractions and perhaps the wording of the sentence, so it made me consider writing a poem of bathroom graffiti.