To Those Who Bullied Me In Junior High, 1970-72 [Repost]

You called me, repetitiously, "Fairy Jerry":

your efforts displayed your studious cruelty
often shouted, or whispered, of which I became wary 
despite that, I have posted my poetry,
the poetry of my choice---

undaunted by the meanness of your egos' swell.

By my face you were offended; and by my voice

you were offended, and, thus, you piled more and more

of your prejudiced hatreds on me, never good enough to be accepted, even as last choice.


Now my poems bear witness to this, and are signed . . . J-9thxciv.

This is the signature my poems carry;

it is an effective means of rescuing "Fairy Jerry."


J-9thxciv

Author's Notes/Comments: 

The phrase "last choice" refers to the tendency of young people, like I was then, being the last to be chosen for team sports in gymn class or even neighborhood games in the summers. 

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