CARICATURE
"What's his name?"
He meant me.
I don't think my mom heard him,
or she was surprised.
He had drawn
a strange caricature of me
while I ate.
He wanted to write
my name on it
and give it to me.
It was funny.
The lip and the eyes
looked very strange.
My adam's apple was huge.
He said that
he made me look older.
The man didn't have any hair,
and he wore a hat
on his bald head.
Now it's hanging on my wall,
a portrait
on the back of a placemat.