Fall 2017 final digital.pdf


Standardized
Corey Cole

1. What is education?
a.  

 
of  countless forgotten volumes,  
but the vulnerable gray of  56 million youth 
given few alternatives. 

b. Operation of  gridded assembly line 
classrooms completing black and white 

 
 

and earn graduation pink slips.  

c. Indoctrination into the majority
whose glaring stares bully
the kid with a smudged free lunch stamp
on his hand which fails to rise
to his heart
as they stand and pledge

 
 

or the right line break  
in your poem.  

 
                       of  a Zumba routine won’t get your heart racing 

             and Ode to Joy 
 

and god forbid we let you have recess.