Lesson Learned
Three middle schools. Two high schools.
Teachers stand out for what they’ve taught me. Made me the person I am.
Lessons learned in class are not always the ones in the syllabus
These are the ones that decide your grade.
Teachers teach algorithms of popularity to get answers they like. But boy+girl doesn’t add up the same way 2+2 does.
You can not translate our lives as you can language.
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(wo men bu neng xiang fan yi yan na yang fen yi sheng ming)
We are not hormonal equations to be balanced into perfection.
Cracking canes against our skin
Hissing electricity snaking into our veins.
Engraving your ideal teenage formulas within us.
2+2=4
boy+girl=love
Their will be a test.
Copyright © Nicholas Goldstein | Year Posted 2017
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