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English Lesson

Matthew Guzman

We began talking before
class, my student
told me about how,
years ago, he shot someone,

“Yeah, spent some
time in jail.
Had to join a gang
in there.”

Told me about his
cholo cellmate
who couldn’t read,
“Yeah, one time he came to

me with a letter from his wife,...
it was all full of dirty-sex-talk,
but he didn’t care that I
read it out loud.”

We talked for about an hour –
He met a woman, got
married, kids, joined the army,
wife left and took

the kids, he came back
after fighting
in a desert
to a deserted house.

When we were in
class later,
I looked over
his writing, but

I couldn’t tell him
that there shouldn’t
be a space between “heart”
and “break.”

Because sometimes
there needs to be.

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