That Boy

a very long one-sentence poem hahah

Of course it would be him—

That boy who

            Can rattle off the states

            In a voice which makes

            Words seem like

            Chocolate raindrops—

Of course it would be him

To try this feat:

This feat which

Few have dared and

Fewer have even

            Considered:

To create the longest sentence—

The longest in the world:

            To sing out in

            Words that

                        Spin about

                        And form

                        Interlinking

                        Coils,

                        Like intricate

                        Snail shells

                        In delicate dirt of

                        Summer Texas grass,

                        Which the dew drowns all it touches and

                        The dirt reaches up to

                        Stain the sky

                        A shade of Huckleberry Finn afternoon—

Of course it would be him—

That boy who

            Sits in the back of class and

            Celebrates the stares he receives:

            Piles them up like

            Pennies in a jar;

That boy who

            Doodles drawings of

            Pirates in cowboy hats and

            Clowns in tuxedos

            All over his

            Addition homework—

Of course it would be him to

Try this feat,

Nearly win this feat,

            And then

            Laugh his progress all away,

            Like kneecaps stained

            By red clay and

            Rhyming days in May.

 

Author's Note

my grammar memory fails me! i couldn't remember if the right phase is "of course it would be him" or "of course it would be he". and then i figured in this case ill ignore grammar...

Reviews

[Dressed in Poetry]

Ha. This made me laugh. I can totally picture this boy.

[Legion]

Of course it's him. Why wouldn't it be him. Who else could it be but him? Unless, of course, it is he. :)

Like it.