spilt milk
we were both locked into
a fraudulent dogma
freshman in an all-boys catholic high school
with no pussy in sight
not that any girl would fuck either of us anyway
marcel funke and me
two boys from the old lawrenceville neighborhood
who hadn’t seen each other in twelve years
enemy combatants from the infant days of reagan
me kicking his ass some days
and he biting a piece of my arm off the next
set to rekindle our little war
but the kids in high school were indifferent to me
while most of them hated marcel
in class, they’d put shit like gum on his seat
or gave him wet willies in the ear
at lunch he got hit with projectile food
french fries and unwanted carrot and cheese sticks
was spit on during our recess time
as the class of us were forced to walk the ancient
quadrangle
to try and change his image
marcel singled me out one day in the cafeteria line
he tried to start a fight
by telling everyone that he used to kick my ass
in the old neighborhood
this didn’t faze me too much
but i said, all right, marcel
and i used to catch you in the bathrooms at arsenal park
sniffing and licking davy krokus’ asshole
which wasn’t true
but everyone believed me anyway
some of my classmates used it as something new
to ostracize old marcel with
much to my chagrin
he never came back for sophomore year
but the one real memory that i do have of marcel funke
was the time he stormed out of his house naked
pouring out a gallon of whole milk onto the street
as he ran around in circles chanting
no one cries over spilt milk
no one cries over spilt milk
while his mother screamed bloody murder
and tried to cover him with a towel
it was the most perfect insanity that i’d ever seen
up until that point
and to this day when i’m feeling low rent
yet somewhat remorseful
i sometimes think
maybe i should’ve used that anecdote
on him
instead.
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