Sometimes girls got in trouble.

Nancy took to the trampoline every lunch hour
Slapping herself down in a full frontal flop.

We all knew
What she was trying to do.

Peggy stayed in high school
Until she was asked to leave.

The father was on the football team.
Kathy went to her sister in Hawaii
Then to a “clinic” in Japan.

Megan to a “doctor,”
She paid by turning tricks.

Linda visited an aunt in Kansas
Although she did not have an aunt in Kansas.

They all seemed to get over it.
I guess.

But I am a man.

— Burton Raabe, Peoria Heights