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Annoying Basketball Kid 2009
It was to be a lazy afternoon
spent at a nearby park.
Jordan, Anthony, and I
swung on the swings
and climbed their wooden structure
& the gazebo.
We thought back on how we all
used to hang out there as little kids.
Now look at us--
dope-smokers in 10th grade...
The basketball court was empty,
so we hung out there.
A young kid,
about 8 or 9,
decided to join us.
Wanting to impress Jordan & Anthony,
he began to pick on me,
as I was the weakest & the nerdiest of the group.
But it wasn't like I could do
anything about him.
If I threw out insults,
he stood the chance of harming himself.
And surely beating the outta
a much younger kid
was frowned upon...
Nothing he did or said
got under my skin, necessarily,
he was just so goddamn annoying.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't
entertain some thought of
pushing him in front of a moving vehicle.
On the walk home,
Jordan and I discussed his awful strategy
to make friends.
Copyright ©
Joseph Szalinski
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