C. R. Reardon

THE SLUR

Have you noticed
The only people who
Use the word 'disabled'
Aren't?

'Disabled' refers to
Computers and machinery
Like the word 'hero'
Refers to comic book
Characters.

I prefer 'gimp'—
It's me. It's mine
Like that mole
Donned by Marilyn.

C.R. Reardon graduated from Stonehill College in 2009 and received his M.A. in English from Salem State University where he currently works in the Sports Information Office. In 2010, Reardon self-published Spawning Gray a memoir that chronicles his struggles with a brain tumor that he was diagnosed with at the age of eight, and in 2011 published his creative Masters thesis 4wheeling'. His poetry has been published in Folly Magazine.