Small Town Grade Seven

Uncategorized / August 2, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In a town of six or seven hundred
you get a cross section of the country

One classmate's father's suicide
with shotgun spattered walls

One boy, my age, drowned
in an upturned truck in a muddy ditch

One with leukaemia, white as the snow

One redhead, Leslie French, as beautiful and mysterious as the language

One blonde, Shirlely Long, to long for

She's only interested in grade 9 boys

One bruised heart

Not yet hard enough to be broken

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1 thoughts on “Small Town Grade Seven”

Ken Christopher August 2, 2023 at 2:10 pm

Oh dear, like that one a lot

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