How to Survive the Fifth Grade in Large Glasses
If you look down, your summer Keds seem absurdly distant.
A week ago, you may have leapt around,
near-sighted and content on the sweating grass,
but just scuffing now over school carpets is precarious enough
with your new glasses in this new place.
Try not to look down.
Instead, examine the tight row of desks and girls in front of you.
Even the backs of these elaborate school-day hairdos are
gelled smooth and taut
and though you may suddenly feel that you have misspent your summer,
notice too, please,
how their heads must ache.
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