Found Poem

Lunch Time

The other kids made fun of Brian and me

 We were so skinny

 Spider legs, two by four, stick woman,

 I could stay dry in the rain

 Standing under a telephone wire,

Other kids unwrapped their sandwiches

Bought their hot meals,

I hid in the bathroom during lunch hour,

Other girls

 Threw away their lunch bags in the garbage

I’d go retrieve them

And return to my stall,

To polish off my tasty finds.

There was, at times

More food in the wastebasket than I could possibly eat.

I stuffed it in my purse for Brian,

I started worrying

How I’d explain to Brian where it came from.

I was pretty sure,

He was rooting through the trash too.