Those times when the teacher brought us outside to play kickball
or some other team sport were torture.
I lived in dread of them, because the first thing she’d do
is pick two team captains — the sportiest, most athletic kids in class —
and then they’d pick their teams.
Oh, the shame and humiliation of standing there, naked,
as the group around me grew smaller and smaller,
added one by one to one team or the other,
inevitably leaving just me and one other klutzy girl
for last.
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