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In
a Second-Hand Copy of Durrell’s Clea:
A
School Photograph of a Little Girl
She has obviously been commanded
to smile
And so she projects a dutiful
grin
But she seems to be a happy
child anyway
Proud of her new red shirt with
polka-dots
We send our children to school
to learn to read
To add, subtract, multiply, and
divide into groups
For P.E. class, to line up
nicely for lunch
To pass notes, giggle, and plant
seeds in eggshells
We don’t know how this child’s
image found its way
To an Alexandria that never
really was
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