the bratty blonde boy with glasses in
the library beating up on his older sister,
while the ******* mother watches. How can
I try to get this book complete by next week

when I realize this is how men grow up
to abuse woman, because they are never
taught different. He wines and races across
the bookshelves while everyone else

looks on but pretends not to notice
the distraction. I gave his old lady a glare
that would have her straight hair curl like a strip
of paper scraped with the edge of a scissors. Well

the ******* brat’s back at the computer, after
he pushed his sister and slapped her. So, she
never got to take a turn. The ignorance in this
mother burns me deeply. Might as well write about it.