Jared Morningstar is a high school English teacher and adjunct English professor at Saginaw Valley State University and Delta College. He writes about his interests and observations of the world around him. Morningstar has published three collections of poetry and prose (American Fries, American Reality, and A Slice of American Pie) through Alien Buddha Press, and he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2020. He lives in Michigan with his wife and children.

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Learning the Game Just before the plane crashes into the frozen Iowa ground, you realize you’ll never play another concert hall, set the nation on fire again with those six strings on that gorgeous Stratocaster, make American youth believe that you are some horn-rimmed, musical Clark Kent who’s here to make them dance, to give them hope that they, too…