• Loud Mouth Lucy

    Date: 2007.08.22 | Category: poetry | Tags:

    Sing softly, Loud Mouth Lucy!
    No one loves fingernails on a blackboard
    Boys
    and girls
    Dressed in tablecloth kilts and
    White button downs singing
    Singing sweet hymns of childhood dreams
    Their little angel voices float
    Through the air ducts and the aged ears
    of the educator

    He shuffles me to the back of the crowd
    Hides me behind tall Benny
    His head absorbs my hopeful song
    But I sing anyway
    For Benny to hear my resistance
    I am headed where these are not
    I’ll be loud and make
    history
    They will be loud and make
    babies

    That mad man – six feet tall
    Gangly arms waving
    Picking
                     the pretty blonds to sing bad solos
    Using his education
    To gain favor from
                    the insignificant