I REMEMBER CARLOS (from"If We Survive")
I remember Carlos
a quiet man/boy who rarely spoke
in the early morning
freshman English class
I taught at the junior college.
He often entered late
but I remember his smile and bright eyes.
His perceptive mind
was a sponge, absorbing thoughts, ideas,
reading books to expand his horizon,
to be different from his friends in the barrio
where he had grown up.
He had left high school at seventeen
to work construction with his uncle.
In mid semester he told me
he was leaving school,
his girl-friend was pregnant.
They were going to be married
and he had volunteered
and would be going to Iraq.
Years later, I saw him in a restaurant
seated with his wife and child.
He thanked me for the times
I’d helped him and for the books
I sent him, but in his eyes
I now saw the quiet anger and the fear,
knowing the horror of which he was capable.
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