Grade six
School yard taunts.
Children are horrible human beings
Who learn their behaviour from their parents.
Skinny dead bones! Skinny dead bones!
The cries are loud and I am compelled to respond.
Skinny dead bones! Skinny dead bones!
This has become my name.
The taunts and jeers drown out my thoughts.
All those years ago,
Yet I still remember.
I remember it as if I had been branded.
Skinny dead bones! Skinny dead bones!
