SHIFT

(for the students who staged the incredible protest Brendan and I were allowed to be part of at a high school in Brooklyn yesterday)

bottle rocket babies

locked in safes unsafe

buried beneath belittling

eventually explode

fuses aint but so long

besides they were

made to be tectonic

fireworks that scream

and star and spark

into the ether

and the ethos

of the

shovel-handed

who will someday

shake and wobble

their legs will wishbone

as the quo violently splits

and bottle rocket babies

the minors

will be miners

of their own fire

though always

always blamed for a fault

line they had no part

in creating