Tuesday, February 18, 2014

18 year-old little pricks.

I was barely
18 years old.
On my own for the first time
working as a clerk, a stock boy,
for a grocery store.
In the non-food item section
'general merchandise'.
Every day I took my lunch break
in the break room upstairs.
Eating crumb donuts
and a microwave Alfredo dinner
with a grape soda.
These other two guys were up there
talking chicks.
"You see that ugly girl with the baby?"
"I know who you're talking about. The one with the weird face, right? The glasses?"
I said.
"Ha ha ha! Yeah! That's her! Can you guys believe she has a kid? Who'd wanna fuck her?"
That guy and I were laughing
but not the other dude.
He finally spoke up,
"Guys...hey. That girl was raped by her dad. But she kept the baby anyways. He's in prison now."
"Oh...seriously?"
"Yeah."
"Fuck."
No one said anything else.
I threw my shit in the trash, clocked back in,
and got back to work.