Poet

Assignment Two

Poetry 101

Student: Leopold Green

Love in handcuffs

The girl I loved called the cops

And had me arrested

She said it was the smartest thing she ever did

Apart from dumping me in the first place

She waved goodbye

As they cuffed me

She thought it was hilarious

How I tried to wave back

The guy in the van with Ed and me

Smelt like my dad

After a hard night on the beer

Fruity and sour

And it made me think about her

About how the first thing I noticed

Was that she was nothing

Like anything I’d had before