Army clothes well chosen
will camoflauge privation
if in fashion and in season,
but better be, among
the well-heeled, on your toes,
and hold your tongue
so nobody ever knows
or suspects your real
origins, your actual class,
or that you got that cool
degree to cover your ass
long before you knew
what it would one day cost,
how it would change you,
what friends would be lost.
Copyright 2021 Richard Hoffman.
Richard Hoffman‘s many books include a memoir Love & Fury (Beacon 2014) and a collection of poems Noon until Night (Barrow Street 2017).
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