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 behaved as if my existence seemed absurd

to your prejudices.  I was never good enough to be accepted, even as last choice.


Now my poems bear witness to this, and are signed . . . Starward:

This signature my poems carry;

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


Starward

aka

S74RW4RD

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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