Broken Reflections Preview: "Public Education"

Here's a preview of my new book, Broken Reflections, which will be debuting this Saturday, November second.  This poem happens to be the title of my forthcoming second book. 

Public Education

“So, she has a
legitimate disease.
Not Autism, but,
arctistic or autistic or artism
or somethin’, I don’t know
but it’s not like she’s retarded
I mean, she kinda is, but
not really. She’s not autistic but
she has a legitimate state disease,
like, it’s recognized by the state
an’ everything.  She has, you know
seizures and stuff, well not really seizures,
but, you know,
seizures.  And, her disease, I
 can’t remember the name of it,
but it’s recognized by the state, like
I said, so she gets state funding and stuff.”

I couldn’t help overhearing.