Gale Acuff
-day School teacher, except for you, it’s worse
than regular school here and if I flunk
the final exam, the big-ass test be
-fore God Almighty when I’m dead, then that
will be all your fault and not mine and I
wouldn’t come back here next week except\
that my parents make me, they get to sleep
and dream but you give me nightmares and then
Miss Hooker starts to weep–I never would
have thought it of her so I start crying
too and forget all about justice, it
can’t be revenge, I’m only ten years old,
and even lend her Father’s handkerchief.
When she gives it back unused I’m wiser.