Scream
By:  Doug Doughtie
© 1995 by Doug Doughtie

it made mommy and daddy happy
he was pressured to do good
it went to school
he held on to mommy’s hand
it went to church
he was forced to believe
it did what it was told
he had no choice
it was teacher’s pet
he wanted acceptance
it made perfect grades
he was persecuted by his peers
it made fourteen hundered on the sat
he was crucified upside-down
it went to college on a scholarship
he never heard of a friend
it made a hundred thousand dollars a year
he was socially unstable
it married a supermodel
he never fell in love
it was admired at its high school reunion
he was forgotten
he was unknown
he didn’t care
he hated everyone
he hated himself
he hated life
he screamed