Trapper Keeper Treason

A Trapper Keeper Notebook drawn on a piece of wrinkled torn paper. A hot air balloon and foliage is depicted on the front. A smaller hot air balloon is on the left side of the top flap that is holding the Trapper Keeper closed.

A cute, popular boy sits

behind me in history.

A football player who

makes history Suck Less.

Our flirting is

harmless.

He is so far

from my league,

we play different sports

plus

I have all the wrong equipment.

Besides,

Jonathan is the love of my life.

Until that cute popular boy runs the toe

of his rubber-soled Nikes

slowly down the inner-arch of my Stan Smiths

and sends such aching through me . . .

I grab my Trapper Keeper,

to start crossing out

doodled rows of Jonathans

before he can see

how all the o’s are little hearts.