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.

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