Wednesday 30 September 2020

She attacks public school teachers

dappled hair slightly crooked

boyish grinning muscled thighs dimpled

in sitting she bursts out laughing backing now

some dreadful spin spitting 


propaganda christened self who,

looking plenty good unburdened, wrists thick

cords tanned as tennis pennies polished and angry,

blame stains of greyed out tutors

stupored to the point of bloopers

while her supple song blares and stares

into the sun of misbegotten rungs

public education hung on, desperately

legislated into air and propagated into oblivion-

tax-lacked contrition in cul de sac backed

banks, inundated with peeling paints

exorciated by testing dates and all while

pressed styles of capital still stung tongues

in the house where she was young


i want to tell her

do not blame your teachers

for years of disinvestment,

blessed testaments to times whipped sand

in their squinting still standing

panting punting processes and ignoring hungry stunts these

growling stallions uncouth clopping amidst well-fed prowling

constitutes sure footed daily scowling into planted branches clipped

to creep in granted private trances of prostituted ideals, chances are

you will not make it out or in alone

but better broken blessings bore you

to this place for the children, 

so in good taste,

replace their plastic plates

refill cups with new tough stuff

and waste no more breath

on bombastic bait


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