Déja Vu in Class

Listening to a student lecture

While writing my class notes

Sitting by an open window

I suddenly dreamed it all before

Some time long ago

Did I dream of the future then

Or did I dream of the past now?

How could I have been in both China

And America at the same time?

My head swimming in nostalgic confusion

Strangely the feeling subsides

Leaving but a surreal impression upon that day

The only experience of lasting value

I derived from the class

On that slow day