Rosemary Dogface

with the huge chest
and the diamond ass
but just one blue eye
gymnastic afterthought
I can’t remember her
saying anything afterwards
or ever for that matter

Patrick Remoulade

(so named for a French Class error)
stumbling through study hall
smoking weed in the vent in the back of Civics
handsome man
(I’d have never dared to say that aloud)
told everyone about Rosemary
after swearing he wouldn’t

Donald Donaghy

then
started doing it
with
my Rosemary and I’m laughing
about it now
although
I went home and stabbed a pillow
that night

someone touched me
someone stuck it to me
someone different made me happy
a little
and I was heedless

everything I need to know
about my worth is here