EDUCATION

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Corrupted education 

a casualty of the machine 

indoctrinated into elegant falsehoods 

about who I am 

what my purpose should be 

what destiny had prewritten for me 

how I was meant to contort myself 

into spaces that never wanted me 


They compelled forced collaboration 

with wolves in borrowed uniforms 

souls who would have sooner 

cast me from a bridge 

than claim me as one of their own 


The only curriculum they mastered 

was a steady diet of self-erasure 

teaching me to wear a fake smile 

to despise my reflection 

so I might resemble the others 

while never once 

being cherished 

for the person I was 

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