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  • Taciturnity  
  • Misinterpretation
  • Fence Me No More
  • Cochlear Implant
  • Chessman Chase at the Square
  • To Deaf
  • The Deaf-Mute Boy Who Could’ve
  • Shofar
  • Pavlovian Pygmalion
  • Learning Up Front
  • It’s Esmeralda, Felix
  • In Der Nacht (In the Night)
  • If I Am At All
  • Golden God
  • Deaf Poet or What?
  • Deaf Man Howls
  • About the Tale of an Old Bay Fisherman
Curtis Robbins
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Pavlovian Pygmalion

A black woman on TV
on a barber’s chair
lambasting indoctrinated
black children educated
in public schools –
white man are superior beings.

A Japanese poetess
wrote ancient haikus
parenthetically wondering
who on her pillow
her samurai shares.

A cross-dressed authoress
wrote in pretense
she’s a man
of her word.

A Brit wrote a play
a pauper flower girl
a guinea pig on a bet
she’d be a magnificent
debutante.

A professor wrote
a story of a boy
raised by wolves
abducted by men –
living incessantly
like an animal.
Some Deaf
grappled for air to sign
Some deaf
gasped for air to say –
the light flashed
no food for naught.
That’s the tale no one told.

By Curt Robbins

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