Poetry: School Reunions by Damien Posterino
School Reunions
He bought a second hand sports car
to compensate for everything.
Has membership to a gentlemen’s club
he uses to listen in to strangers conversations-
shot glass anecdotes from men discussing crypto,
divorce and ladyboy flings in Bangkok.
Fantasizes about other people having affairs
so drives past motels looking for a light on-
stares into the eyes of cars’ full beams
but they never blink first.
A hooker named Fleur screws him for free-
his eyes well up when she remembers his name.
His older brother did time for insurance fraud.
His wife left him for her life coach.
Avoids a meltdown because there is nothing else
but to stand on the edge of reality.
He was a senior prefect at an all-boys school.
At reunions he does lines of coke and rehashes lies.
On weekends he reads old birthday cards
and imagines which friends will die first.
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