Rain upon me

Rain upon me your turbulent tales of locker-side loves,
the gossip of girls whose braces still encase their molars,
how a gallon of groans at a non-guitar picked song
not from the era of Blockbuster filled the auditorium,

how Squishables sit to be squeezed by boys
burned out from hours of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Algebra.

Rain upon me about how mild-tempered I was in comparison,
how I lacked the lust for the drama-drenched epic tales
of how this girl said “that” to Eric Coleman in front of
his two-week girlfriend Layla Bosko in 3rd period,

when in truth that lust was forcibly drained
by nights of my father’s chemo vomit and withering hair.

Rain upon me tales of the girl I wasn’t allowed to be

Morgan Boyer is the author of The Serotonin Cradle (Finishing Line Press, 2018), If I Wasn’t Sacred (Alien Buddha Press, 2025) and a graduate of Carlow University. Boyer has been featured in Kallisto Gaia Press, Thirty West Publishing House, Oyez Review, Pennsylvania English, and Voices from the Attic. Boyer resides in Pittsburgh, PA.