HEROES

Rows of students, two at a table
Sketching, fidgeting, listening
What makes a hero, I ask?

Eyes turn downward into
Silence. Who are your heroes?
Only then the answers flow.

Grandma
Jesus
Hunter Thompson
My parents

No one says
Ernie Banks
Willie Mays
Ozzie Smith
Satchel Paige

And, I wonder if this
Is a good thing