Last time I’ll say it

i have a thing for fish eyes
and i don’t know what that means either,
it’s just the first thing i thought when i
looked across the classroom and saw this
Boy
[capital B]

eye contact sucks
but he wasn’t looking at me, so i could still breathe
and then he turned and the words almost
split from my lips

the Boy with the weak chin and the frayed
brown hair and the neck that makes him look like
he’s always naked
the Boy has fish eyes and you know what?

i don’t think he knows.