Learning My Lesson--Gary Soto When I was five I found Beauty-- a girl on a box Of soap-- while fooling in An alley with my brother Who was all gum and Better looks. He snatched The box, gazed, and Better looks, gazed, and Looked back at me, kid Like a broken-down fence -- said he knew her house And took me down our alley To the street Mother said never To cross. "Over there," He pointed, "that house." I worried my brow into lines: stacked boards, oily field Of truck parts, a warehouse Slamming shut with Machinery. "No sir," I said, being no one's fool, And ran ayay to play Only to return, look both ways, And cross the street I looked back. A river Of glass and bottle Caps gleaned on the asphalt. The parked cars seemed far, Even Rick who was jumping In delight, singing I was a dead boy On the floor when Momma found out. "You're stupid too," I said, Turned and walked until I was lost and talking To a dog. And how did I Get back? How did any of us Get back when we searched For beauty? I don't know, Except days later Our neighbor's cat crossed That same street and came home With a sliver,long as an evil finger, Poking from its eye. Poor orange cat, it couldn't tear, Blink, or close its eye in sleep, Even in death. -- I'm nobody! Who are you? How dreary to be somebody! Are you nobody, too? How public, like a frog Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! To tell your name the livelong day They'd banish us, you know. To an admiring bog! --

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