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Reading-Riting-Rithmetic
1 November 2005
Corpus Christi,
Texas
at a distance orange
school bus drives by
fixed its route on
black asphalt straight lined roads
rigid schedule sets
budding minds carried
bound itinerary for
each subject
symbols breakfast, lunch
and dinner dining
forced frenzied
feeding continuous day
acid reflux cogitates
and digests
white paper
stuff,—filled gills,—bulimia
anorexia’s vomit
strewn about,—
i think i’d cut
myself a thousand times
if i had to endure as
mindless drone
assimilating dribble
spitted source
that barely
dictionary usage knows
in little fortress
penitentiary
plus and minus gold
stars and detention
school’s unspoken use
of fear and power
strict discipline
enforced adult to child
douses spontaneous
outbursts of love
kills creativity that
makes child’s joy
brings
dull-repetitious monotony
fattens young minds
for entertainment’s kill
bloats soul’s
sensations for drug enhancement
creates child’s
perceptions illiterate
for promised rigor
and relevancy.