Creative Writing

by Sarah Henry

He said his grandfather

was personal secretary

to Pierre DuPont, even

though Pierre DuPont must

have had many hangers-on.

(His parents didn’t own

a brag gallery in their

den to prove it.)

He worked it in that

he was president of Student

Council in high school.

(A former classmate said

he had only been treasurer

of the Ski Club.)

By his own report,

his college girlfriend

hadn’t been as “rich”

as he was. (Was he rich?)

He broadcasted a completely

false and unsubstantiated

rumor about my making

a bodice-ripping attempt

to seduce him. (Look!

All of his women come running!)

Finally, he trailed over to Russia,

where he published a fish story,

a whopper, a whale of a tale.

Yes, this is about you.

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Sarah Henry is a former student of Robert Hass and Louise Gluck at the University of Virginia. Today she lives near Pittsburgh, where her poems have appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. and the Pittsburgh Poetry Review. Farther afield, Sarah's work has been published in the International Women's Day issue of the Camel Saloon, The Hollins Critic and six anthologies. CHEAP POP featured her humorous prose. Humor is very important to her.