Laggard Boys Poem by Alizon Kiel

Oh those laggard boys

Still chasing a skirt that hadn’t been worn in ages

After becoming ever more unseemly

After becoming ever more torn at the seams

With the kick pleat rising higher and higher

Becoming harder and harder to hide

The skirt had no choice but to back up against a wall

Relegating itself to the back of the closet behind heavy coats and wool sweaters

One wouldn’t have known where

One couldn’t have possibly remembered

Were it not for those laggard boys still trying to look her up