INDOCTRINATION

Before higher learning, before that, Highschool and memories of a guy called Roger, who did ballet

and because of that he was called faggot, poofter, because blokes dont do ballet at Monbulk High

and if you do.....if you do you get surrounded on the footy field by thirty kids, like wasps on meat

and me in Year 7, smaller, younger than most, looking through higher shoulders, and theres Roger and a guy

fisting it out, blood for blood, and bloodied noses, and thing is Roger started winning and the crowd, such as it was

the fuckers, started spitting on him, this is the memory, and me cheering for him, and he won the fight i swear

and he was strong against all that, and they say sticks and bones dont break your bones but words

will never hurt you, but other things do, and Roger? who knows? but at least someone remembers as gutsy.