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My eager filial ears filled with the blazing 
fascist catch-phrases, expounded in flow
at the round table where a host's prerogative prevailed,
failed to discern the bars which jarred against life.
Stifling the aspirations of a sizeable heart,
while standing uncertain at schooling's starting gate,
artful, I'd elbowed my telling way with bombast
and aplomb, to merit the murky halo of dominance.
Prominent as you taught, I thrust their disgusting tonsils
down the bent piping of their impious throats.
Yet a boasting letter proclaiming my prowess met
your wet threat to expose me as a bully to the Head.
     This earthquake tremor sent a warning shrill
     to torpid parts of me which trusted - still.