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CRUTCH BOY
by Mather Schneider
Here comes
Crutch Boy:

clack-clack,
clack-clack,
clack-clack.

Crutch Boy
has been on his crutches
for over 2 years now
and is hooked
on the blue
pills.

If he admitted
his foot was fine
they’d stop his
scripts.

He can’t weigh
more
than a buck 10.

He wears a long
camouflage jacket
despite the desert heat

also a baseball hat
headphones
dark sunglasses
long greasy brown hair.

Lately he’s been
talking to himself
even yelling and
screaming.
Sometimes I feel sorry for him.

Other times I want
to kick those crutches out
from under him

and watch
him cry.
Jan. 2011
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