Education

Before the letters appeared after his name,
Donald often skipped school for the park
With his expecting satchel, its kick of Gray's
Anatomy. He watched topless boys monkey

Bar with spider ribcages and dog walkers who bent
from the waist, not knees. In winter, by bronchial trees,
He'd find smokers, sheltering, cupping for a light,
Or whispering. Professor Brander had a cappuccino

Complexion; cocoa freckles on troubled white.
Having the keys to most department doors
He could slip pinches of Lithium into his corduroy
Pockets. Then, in heavy rain he would beam.