1.
Kings lie down to zip up their jeans,
buy Cetaphil, candy, magazines
at Walgreens because they can
walk there unsupervised, describe
blowjobs they’ve given to seniors
in cars, spend what they think of as
their own money. Home sick from school,
they learn about G-strings from daytime TV.
A Jerry Springer episode: “My Daughter
Dresses Like a Ho!” and a mom comes on
waving a finger at a whooping audience
that quiets as she opens a variety-pack
Band-Aid box out of which she pulls her
daughter’s clothes.
We named those thongs for this one
beautiful junior who, in the cafeteria,
sat down within view. Why it was
we had to be in high school
at the same time an extremely low-riding
jeans trend arose, we’ll never know.
2.Kristen went to Catholic schoolso everyone had already been kissed.As a girl, that’s how you made itto first base. You didn’t kiss,you were kissed. What does it meanto get fingered? I asked her, the terminsufficiently illustrative. She made a motion.My eyes widened. “It’s reallymore for the guy,” she said.
