David A. Bart - poems
  • Intro
  • Home
  • Kingdom Come
  • Tunnel of Love
  • Exit Now
  • The Passion
  • Texas Education
  • Dumb Supper
  • Good Year
  • Toys
  • Saint Michael and the Devil
  • Invisible Knights
  • The Rain Gauge
  • Ponder
  • Remainder
  • Green Ghost
  • December 13th
  • Dedication
  • Prevailing Wind
  • Dreamland 1911
  • 10
  • On the Median
  • These Things Happen
  • White Water
  • The October People
  • Scene from a Moral Panic
  • Estrellita
  • Another Ending
  • What We're Dealing With
  • How Did the Foxes Die?
  • There was a Man
  • Bio. and credits

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Texas Education


Give it here, Señor 
clucks the frump, a metallic daisy
hanging on each side of her head.
The gracious Pakistani boy gives up
a silver crescent from his ear.

He cuts pep rally
and fills that requirement hiding
in nonfiction aisles–espionage,
the Coelacanth and mysterious
moving coffins of Barbados.

At 10:55 he’s offered oblong
cheeseburger pizza and a sign
on the lunch room door wants to know
if he thinks of suicide.
A squad of tenth-grade

Hispanic girls push him aside,
squinting at the sign to see themselves
in the glass and assess the blue
powdered sex bruising 

their chocolate eyes.


Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review 
#29, Fall/Winter 2007

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