chalk board learning

chalk board mentality posing as
historical education
was it cain that killed abel?
the answer was clap slapped
dust on the back step
of class
by some brown nose smile politician
teacher said
we would never learn
that was back when
mother teresa, strung out on
her black and white pearls, baked
the sweet bread that fed the seeing world
and then
the tv tooned color
the vertical—
confused by the gravity of the—horizontal
never held true but
we all watched
as cain killed
abel—again
and again and
somehow
it is always
new

even blood turns
to dust
with time

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