Poem: "Inferior Education"
Inferior Education Today, for the first time, you struck your mother on the cheek. Yosano Akiko, “Auguste’s Single Strike” Three things I was not taught as a child but wish: to strike my mother on the cheek to contradict my teacher in public to throw rocks at cops. Now I am an indifferent citizen, keep-at-home critic, afraid to go up against someone smarter. I shout at my mother when she doesn’t come to the point, striking her with words.