MY COLOR IN HIGH SCHOOL
The bright girls sported blue,
the dull ones, brown.
The bully boys
claimed red for their color.
The nerds went for yellow.
Goths of either sex
had nowhere else to go
but black.
The nascent eco-warriors
always thought green
looked good on them.
A couple of guys,
already questioning
their sexuality,
draped themselves
in purple.
Actually,
school unform was mandatory
and it was mostly gray.
No,
we weren’t all poets.
©2023 John Grey All rights reserved.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Hollins Critic. Latest books, Covert, Memory Outside The Head, and Guest Of Myself are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Ellipsis, Blueline, and International Poetry Review.