My Name Is Ponerreay

By Ponnerreay Pon
John Marshall High
Rochester, MN

"my name is jean-francois,"
i tell them
they raise their eyebrows,
they frown
"my name is scott"
"nice name," they said laughingly
"my name is tab"
“can i drink you?" laughing louder
they wonder...
they feel?...
"my name is ponereay"
how do you say it again?

uh uh pond!
that's better
nice name, pond

when i came home
i lost my names

i'm lost

who am i?

dara? darith? chantha?
jean-pierre?...i'm not a french product
scott...i don't even look like one
ponereay, they can't say it
tab, it's the name of a drink
hmmmm,
they can't say my name
...that’s their problem!
my name is ponereay

you say it.

ponerreay
pon-erreay
pon-er-reay

 


  Volume I: Issue I April/May 1996
 
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