Life Jacket Anyone?
PDB
Rouge cheeks and
bright eyes over the
same loose-fitting hippy dress
and gray T-shirt, so
I wonder
how her family affords
tuition and guess
she works and studies, uses
make-up to try to
cover exhaustion.
Straight As, and
a team player, she makes
new friends: most do not. Once she
sat in on a class long
enough to
see it was too hard. She said
she would be back, so
here she is, striving not to
be known as best but
happy anyway.
Too many
students never get involved;
they waltz through
classes as if their
looks or family
name should be
enough to score a grade, as
if Chonnam
were Harvard: then comes
this fresh real learner.
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