Ken Haponek

He stares at the girls in detention
the ones doing their work
as if he'd like to eat them up
(open his slack-jawed mouth
even wider
wide like a crocodile
and swallow their young
awkward beauty
in one drooling gulp)
hands never dropping
the Goosebumps novel
that's been open to pg. 9
for the past 55 minutes.