caring for misfits

please don't tell my mom

or sister-in-law or niece

but my spectrum nephew 

(who can't read and failed

kindergarten and already

feels the hating mocking

stare of the kids his age

from the normal section

when he's out on the play

ground after school waiting 

for my brother to pick him 

up from a crap job selling

unreal estate to no-credit

renters and rehab grifters)

is going to end up

freaking on someone

if i can't save him first

and buy a farm

so he might feed gritty straw

to forgotten horses

all retreads

just like him.