That Boy Didn’t Like To Be Touched

[rowens]

We laughed at him in elementary school,
He wouldn’t play with any of us on the playground
And if you got too close to him he’d scream.
It was funny at the time.

In high school, we just thought he was an asshole.
We heard how he was supposed to be really smart and everything,
But he always wore those old sweatpants and Monster Truck shirts
Like his mama, or somebody, still dressed him.

I talked to him once, when I was visiting my son who’s in college.
He’s a professor there. So, yeah, I know he’s smart and all.
But I just can’t help but think of him as mentally retarded.
I mean, what kind of person doesn’t like to be touched?
…None I know of.


..................


In the winter and summer months, I feel like writing short, simple poems like this. In spring and fall, things get more intense, for different reasons.

[arbil_poieo]

This shows that some feelings never change or some people and that's poetic in itself. It even read as adolescent, very simple but effective read.