Sunday, January 7, 2018

The Pest (First Day of Catholic First Grade)

We’d just arrived and were putting our stuff away,
when I noticed a pleasant-looking brown-haired girl
who had the same lunch box as me.
Overcome by what I think was an impulse of generosity—
I can share something with someone in this forsaken place!—
I approached and showed the girl my lunch box, but she
was not impressed in the tiniest, slightest least,
and cut me to the heart.