All night, you keep waking in school
wooden paddles on bare skin
stomach punches behind closed doors
Cold winter hallways
laughter in the classroom
isolation you still feel
They are probably all dead
except in your head where
they hide and never leave
Bastards keep saying you deserve it
and you hate yourself for wanting to
please and beat them in the same dream
5-7-20
My husband's poetry 
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