Bryan Wilhite: we must learn to accept the implied without anger
we must learn to accept the implied without anger
©1995 Bryan D. Wilhite
“white” boy.
acquaintance.
trying to be a friend.
but our handshakes
collide:
he tries something from his hip and smooth;
I give it to him straight and linear
with the pale side of my hand.
[!note] This poem is published in the chapbook, the adolescence of the cool, compiled in 1995 and printed by the author in 2004.