Class by Wayne F. Burke

My old girlfriend said

that I would be a classy guy

if I dressed better and

stopped picking my nose,

but the price, to me

seemed high;

my jacket was torn at the elbows,

I had holes in my socks,

and the nose thing

it was habit

from when

as a kid

I was bored

I was anxious--

I did not really care

anyway

about being "classy."

Wayne F. Burke's poetry has been widely published online and in print. He has published six full-length poetry collections, most recently DIFLUCAN (BareBack Press, 2019). He lives in the Pine Tree State.