because I have been listening to your bullying in my head 44 years and that is 44 years too long.
Listen up Mrs. K because in 4th grade you said I was too fat and stupid to be a poet and I'd be wasting paper anyway.
Now I have something to say.
Tonight in a bookstore filled with people as my poetry group launched our book, and I read my my poems out loud - I was heard I was good enough to be there.