Bad poems pt.1

Get out by saying

I made up a few reasons

Some were silly, like needing to walk my fish

I was even gonna say I have this blue toenail

That grew after I drank this concoction of

Blue gushers, blue sour patch kids

Submerged

In a cup full of that

dark green lake out in the woods behind school

It's been spreading up from my toenail to my ankle

I told my mom in this panicked frenzy

She nearly puked when she saw

Never mind,

I was gonna say more believable things too

Like, my grandmother’s ninetieth birthday was that day

But then I remembered you never mentioned a day

And my grandmother,

Well she went to sleep on her eightieth

Birthday.

We were all gathered around her,

It was right after blowing out the candles

“She’s just taking a nap”

That’s what my dad said

Maybe so, but she never woke up from it

Anyway,

But none of those reasons are true,

None of them were any real good either

Really, I was just trying to spare you

Because I heard the word “No” is quite

Devastating.

But, that’s what I have to just say

Don’t I?

Oh, you’re walking away

Hey, I didn’t mean to make this worse!

Sorry.