Tested by Dust

While we sat

taking our six-weeks test,

the wind rose

and the sand blew

right through the cracks in the schoolhouse wall,

right through the gaps around the window glass,

and by the time the tests were done,

each and every one of us

was coughing pretty good and we all

needed a bath.

I hope we get bonus points

for testing in a dust storm.

April 1934