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The Pirania (Secondary School Litmus)

CEE

Do you know who the piranha, are?
Did you attend high school
For more than 4 days?
Do you blot out that time?
Then, in 4^th grade,
You got pushed into mud puddles;
Do you laugh about that time?
Then, in 4^th Grade, you did the pushing;
Do you smile, wan, and pass off any pain
With aphorisms and Dr. Laura bullshit?
Then, in 4^th grade,
You got pushed into mud puddles
Told on the bullies
Who were punished
And who then pushed you into the puddles, again
The next day

Do you instead remember
With impossible longing,
But with a look on your face and in your eyes
Like Bruce Dern had, in Coming Home?

I know who the piranha are
Or, who they were
Who they still are, this very second
In rooms never given to change

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