a statement of what happened to me today and nothing more.

o guy who sits beside me in spanish class,

i hold no affection for you whatsoever

and i know that you feel the same.

you copied my homework that one time

(because i was right next to you

and always do the assignments

and i let anyone copy who asks)

and you make me laugh

(on my manic days, of course,

when i'd laugh at anything)

but that is it, and i'd be an idiot

for believing more to it

like 15-year-old girls are apt to do.

 

o girl who sits one seat in front and to the left,

you must not be seeing either of us correctly.

for one person being in desperate need of homework

or one or two shared laughs (manic days)

does not warrant that acerbic, cold-smile statement

"you two should date".

 

(but o, guy next to me,

must you have said

"i don't date girls that are

in my same classes at school"?

couldn't you have at least said

"i don't date girls so fat and ugly"?

and why, to the both of you,

did you continue speaking across me

like i wasn't there?

there's nothing to do

but ignore this inconsequential thing

and bury my head in the textbook,

silencing the voices in my head.)

Reviews

[Lyzzy Redd]

Hate when this kind of stuff happens in school. Didn't even think of the guy like that until my friend said, 'You two should date' and then I realized the whole time that I was just pretending not to like him because I just wanted a break from guys. Le sigh. Nice poem, though.

[Raymond]

yeah that sucks...the event, not the writing.