Some Thought Him Cool
He once masturbated into a school urinal
at an angled view of other boys.
Some pretended not to see,
Some thought it cool.
I was disgusted, I was not brought up
to pull my pecker in public.
I was not part of his bully-boy circle,
but I was a member of the same
cross-country team,
when I discovered him cheating, he knew it.
I was not a snitch, but he threatened
to F... my Mom anyway;
at seventeen it seemed possible; he was big.
Then a few years later
I heard he had been arrested for serial rape.
When I told Mom she looked so strange.
I had never seen that look before.
When I thought about it,
anger and sorrow laid down together,
and they never got up again.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2019
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