I Might've Told Him Poem by The Poet SPIEL

I might've told him

Mark Saunders and ten others
made the Honor Roll
on national TV.
All of them Americans
under the age of twenty-seven.

The famous news anchorman said:
"In silence, here are eleven more."
Like always I started counting
uniform pictures of proud soldiers
and wishing they were not dead.
You don't expect to see
somebody you know.
Then oh my god
there was Mark's picture.
More like a crummy snapshot.
Him looking kind of high
leaning against the cockpit of a jet.
I had to stare at his hometown name
to believe it was him.

Mark never knew it
but I fell in love with him
after Junior Prom
after we dumped our chicks
after we didn't get laid
after we jerked each other off
after we hooted it up
till sunrise
after we went for a mess of bacon
at Denny's.

That's when I fell in love
with Mark Saunders.
I should have but
never got around to
telling him
he had amazing hands.

_____ The Poet SPIEL