S.M. Abeles

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Boots

If he only knew
his crush was watching
before he delivered the
coup de grâce he
would have made the
bully lick the blood
from his boots first.

Instead, he took them off,
blew the red dry, and
gave them to her.

S.M. Abeles lives and writes in Washington, DC. He's published dozens of poems in print and electronic journals since his Roy Hobbs-like return from nowhere to the world of creative writing last summer. Links to those works, as well as other pieces, may be found his website, Everything Is Empty, at www.everythingisemptypoetry.blogspot.com.