Twenty-Seven Eyes

  Cindy and Frank and Bradley did not want to learn about the X-Y intercept today. They had all had strange dreams the night before and now Ms. Coats was just being an annoyance with her "slope formula" this and her "unit circle" that.   "I will graph her out of existence," said Frank. "I bet I could, because the Goggins showed me how."   "Don't be an ass," said Cindy. "The Goggins never show anything, they only watch."   Bradley merely picked his nose and stared out the window. The dreams had only recently started for him and he was finding it all a bit much.   "CHILDREN, YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION," Ms Coats boomed across the room. "I CAN TELL WITH THE EYES ON THE BACK OF MY HEAD. AND THE ONES IN MY EARS AND ELBOWS."   Ms. Coats' twenty-seven eyes rolled in anger and exasperation as her body writhed and waved the chalk in non-Euclidean directions.   In the back of the room, Kelly LaChance began to cry. She had not had any of the dreams yet.   Perhaps she was having one now.   * * *   poke   Poke-poke   "Kelly!" Gordon Garret was whispering and jabbing her in the arm with a decidedly Euclidean pencil. She started, grabbed the edge of her desk, and looked around the classroom in disbelief.   Ms. Coats was still droning on about the X-Y intercept, her two eyes focused only on the chalkboard. Kelly looked back at Gordon, who smiled and scribbled something on a scrap of paper, which he passed to her when Ms. Coats' two eyes were not looking.   The paper said:   I SAW IT TOO