Posts by davidlinebarger

SAT Scores

By on Oct 13, 2013 in Poetry | 3 comments

  (for my daughter) Love is SAT scores, my neighbor says, they have so much to do with who meets who on a college campus, love now waiting in line with suprising legions of seventh-grade students, your decision, not mine, to take the early SAT, this country’s fingerprint, the marks you make whirl-whorl weak and perhaps weeded-out, or good, better, best, ancient potency of phallus, your girl-boy mind wielding #2 pencil, love somewhere inside you as I am inside you through life and death we will enter together the doors of others, and some lucky one will open your door, find you waiting...

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