Presumably he was new, didn\u2019t know<\/p>\n
the exact addresses, didn\u2019t know<\/p>\n
how Magnolia meets Simpson by Grand.<\/p>\n
Strange. <\/span>He stopped at each corner,<\/p>\n consulted that map. <\/span>He was a mystic <\/p>\n searching for water with paper diviner.<\/p>\n Goddamn him!<\/p>\n <\/span>Why did I realize <\/p>\n <\/span> <\/span>too late to say this to his face<\/p>\n <\/span>he was hiding something?<\/p>\n (But it wasn\u2019t the prison <\/p>\n he was hiding, not the psychiatric hospital–<\/p>\n <\/span>we knew about these)<\/p>\n This man was hiding<\/p>\n an agenda, this man was steering<\/p>\n <\/span>a social wheel:<\/p>\n <\/span>we seemed too white<\/p>\n <\/span>and he was steering us<\/p>\n <\/span>behind around away<\/p>\n <\/span>away from people of color<\/p>\n <\/span>(he thought we wouldn\u2019t like them)<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>toward $ in his greasy little pocket.<\/p>\n <\/span>Goddamn the price <\/p>\n <\/span> <\/span>we still have to pay<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/span>for that marking map<\/p>\n <\/span> <\/span>that turned-back attitude<\/p>\n <\/span>that wordless approval of hatred<\/p>\n <\/span>this outrage <\/p>\n <\/span>burning for him. Van Zant has taught near-dropouts for 14 years and has written many other poems related to students in his alternative school–white, black and Hispanic (dysfunctionality knows no racial boundaries).<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2000 Frank Van Zant. All rights reserved.<\/font><\/small><\/small> <\/small> <\/font><\/b> {jos_sb_discuss:9}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Real Estate Agent by Frank Van Zant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[94,110],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tma-articles-and-commentary","tag-poetry","tag-the-multiracial-activist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-7x","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/08\/Articles-and-Commentary.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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