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Where are the Back-to-School Ads?
The tumult in the heart
Keeps asking questions
-Elizabeth Bishop, “Four Poems: I / Conversation”
Where are the summer’s-end back-to-school ads?
No dancing pencils or princess backpacks
No brand-new notebooks with bright plastic tabs
No staplers, glue, file folders, paper, or pens
No laughing children in jeans and tops and tees
No ‘way-cool sneaks or socks or flippy skirts
No fashion purses, no funny new hats
No Disney images of hallway fun
There is no merriment this new school year
Only chemicals and distancing
and fear
1 comment:
That's sad.
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