Being dropped
Daddy and his newest girlfriend, Gayle,
drop her off.
It's Sunday and the girls,
left there for the weekend,
wear pajamas most of the day.
But she wears grown-up clothes,
her décolletage
looking fine
in the sweater from Gayle,
Daddy tells her.
He leaves her with the Dean
and 3 big suitcases.
Enough for the season, baby.
We’ll call you at Christmas.
Switzerland and slopes and Gayle.
Her teachers understand
why she doesn’t talk.
they read her angry homework.
Grades don’t matter
at this school, says the Dean.
It’ll take about a month
before she starts to
fit in
with the rest
of the abandoned girls.
Another time spent at an all-girls boarding school in Connecticut. This one was for 'underperforming' girls - ones who were more 'interested in art.' They were also more abandoned by their rich parents, seemed to me. This one girl was dumped off the day before the semester started by her dad and the girlfriend. She was so angry she didn't speak for a while.
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ReplyDeleteYes, so true. I saw so much love and support for these girls - from each other and the teaching staff.
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