A POEM - THE GAME ISAAC PLAYED

THE GAME ISAAC PLAYED
I had a good friend
in high school, named Isaac.
He had this little trick
that he played.
We’d all be sitting
on a bench at lunchtime,
eating our sandwiches
and drinking our drinks.
Then, at some clutch moment,
when the kid next to him
had a mouthful of soda,
Isaac would turn to him
and scream as loud as he could,
“GGGAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
right into the kid’s ear.
Nearly every time
the victim would spit his drink
all over the floor,
and the rest of us
would laugh wildly
at the spectacle.
And all of us
Would secretly be thinking,
“shit, I’m so glad it wasn’t me.”