Brennan Cohoon

English 9

10-14-14

 

Mason

 

When I watch you

Wearing your dinkles like your other fellas

Making noises, surrounded by your group

Of more dinkle wearers

Or

When I watch you

In your pearly white nike lunarlons

With the tan khaki pants

Sitting, waiting for your girl

Like it’s never going to happen

I say

When I watch you

You dinkle wearing, khaki wearing man (so I think)

Who used to be the talk of the town

In St. Joseph

Now called the dinkle wearer

I stand up

Through your dinkles

I stand up

This poem was written using Lucille Clifton’s poem “Miss Rosie” as a pattern.