Kindergarten
The bookshelves
hid me perfectly
No one could see,
then he dug his
teeth into me
Dirty nose,
he’s a bastard
flopped to the floor
we were class-less
White kids in masses
Mornings were cold
inside the classroom
We held her shoes
while she read
and I didn’t want
to wear my hair up
I swallowed my words
at breakfast
Then puked them
up after school-
Mute-invested.
I knew more then
Life felt backward
What was I hiding from?
Their faces?
Would I die if I
could face this?
Double-knot laces
Air hit the back
of my neck
This was tasteless
I hid behind the same bookshelves
Where he bit me,
where she hid with me
where I cried for my mother
because she had never
left me
I wondered what would
happen if I spoke
with my own tongue
And when the
words finally came
out they could
barely see me
About this poem
This poem has to do with my Kindergarten experience
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Written on August 19, 2023
Submitted by Abedmoore on August 19, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 813 |
Words | 181 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6, 5, 2, 5, 3, 6, 3, 4 |
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