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Bag Check at Central High

Jackie Smith

They swarm the corridor
Clamorous and agitated
Angry bees, their hive disturbed,
Roiling adolescents
Like sour wine
About to burst its cask.
Young men, pants
Sagging like a soiled diaper
Fake gold chains
Round the neck like rosaries
Forgotten invocations to a
Forgotten God,
Priests of a desperate congregation.
Daughters of Eve
Stuffed into habits of painted clothes
Breasts bound and spilling over
Incarcerated in elastic.
Novitiates no more.
Accursed teachers drafted
To inspect backpacks and pockets
Bestowing, godlike,
A human touch to
The liberating of
Mace, knives, guns,
Contraband.

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