FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: SCHOOL SHOES Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words school and/or shoe, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on August 16th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: School Shoes will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, August 17th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Saturday, August 17, 2024

PJ Swift

Too Cool for School


Waiting forty years to write about him, and still not ready.   Even now his personality has been too potent to properly digest.  The oldest kid in the room by twenty years.  The best pot, the coolest digs on the edge of this edgy town, the hottest, loftiest, girl in the school.  And the parents couldn't touch him.  All the dudes swirl around him because what else could a sixteen-year-old dream of?  And if you're just an odd kid, who by some odd chance sees right through him, well, he sees right through you too. And puts you back in your odd place, even if you can see it coming.  Because you can't do anything but giggle self-consciously as he blows bong-smoke in your eyes.   And think, if this is cool, maybe I'll never be cool. 


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