Able Muse - all he whispered https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/220/220? en All He Whispered: 1981 https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/featured-poetry/geoffrey-brock/all-he-whispered? <h2><p>All He Whispered: 1981</p></h2> <p>In high school, everybody beat him up.<br> Not just the thugs, whose ire he seemed to court,<br> But even those who weren’t the fighting sort.<br> Like tiny Pete Maloney, nicknamed Pup,</p> <p>Who broke his nose. Or shy, sweet Wanda Speers,<br> Who burst from her chair one morning in Home Ec,<br> Beat him down to the floor, then kicked his neck.<br> Neither told what he’d whispered in their ears.</p><p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/featured-poetry/geoffrey-brock/all-he-whispered?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v6/featured-poetry/geoffrey-brock/all-he-whispered?#comments Featured Poetry all he whispered geoffrey brock poems v6 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:26:22 +0000 Administrator 159 at https://www.ablemuse.com