UNDERGROUND VOICES MAGAZINE/JUSTIN HYDE


	UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY

JUSITN HYDE

they put me in special classes

mrs bunker's
small room
for math
and reading.

i knew i wasn't
a feeb.

it was just
dying dogs,

little girls with
crippled legs,

and the way
my father sighed
and stared
at the walls.

i was nine
and didn't yet know
how to say
nothing is worth it
and nothing
ever will be.

so i sat quietly
in mrs bunkers room
with my hands
in my lap
and

fantasized about
crawling
into the sewer
with dad's
exacto knife
and doing
the thing.

Justin Hyde has had stuff published in Thieves
Jargon, Zygote in my coffee, Cerebral Catalyst
and other on-line and print publications.