He Never Did
Danny Cogan said
he was going to smash
your face in
after school,
but he never did,
it was just one
of his frequent threats
he dished out
to kids smaller
than himself;
You guessed
he didn’t have
the patience to wait
or maybe
he didn’t have it in him
to go through
with the threat
of punishment after all.
Then one day
he was taken off
by some weird guy
to the beach
and the cops
were searching for him
and his mother
was distraught
thinking the worse,
imaging him
dead some place,
buried in some woods
or damp ditch
or left on the beach
to be taken out
by the tide,
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poem by Terry Collett
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