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  • 标题:History Lesson.
  • 作者:Gross, Philip
  • 期刊名称:NATE Classroom
  • 印刷版ISSN:1753-6162
  • 出版年度:2011
  • 期号:March
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:National Association for the Teaching of English
  • 摘要:
     History Lesson   First, one  in the crowd puts the eye on you--  a nod to number two   who gets the message  and flips back something sidelong,  something snide   that everybody hears  but you. Soon three or four  are in it. They'll make sure   you catch the steel  glint of the snigger they wear  like a badge. And there   come five or six  together, casual, shouldering in  around you with a single grin   and nothing you say  seems to reach them at all.  The badmouthings they call   mean only this:  they want to scratch. You are the itch.  A thousand years stand by, hissing Witch!   Nigger! Yid!  All you hear is silence lumbered  shut around you. And the ten or hundred   looking on  look on. They are learning not to see.  The bell rings, too late. Already   this is history. 

History Lesson.


Gross, Philip


History Lesson

 First, one
 in the crowd puts the eye on you--
 a nod to number two

 who gets the message
 and flips back something sidelong,
 something snide

 that everybody hears
 but you. Soon three or four
 are in it. They'll make sure

 you catch the steel
 glint of the snigger they wear
 like a badge. And there

 come five or six
 together, casual, shouldering in
 around you with a single grin

 and nothing you say
 seems to reach them at all.
 The badmouthings they call

 mean only this:
 they want to scratch. You are the itch.
 A thousand years stand by, hissing Witch!

 Nigger! Yid!
 All you hear is silence lumbered
 shut around you. And the ten or hundred

 looking on
 look on. They are learning not to see.
 The bell rings, too late. Already

 this is history.


Philip Gross (from The All-Nite Cafe)

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