I was nearly twenty.
Shocked?
Well, you didn't know me then.
I met her at high school.
We'd been goth together,
Eating lunch outside
With the other misfits,
But had never really talked.
Now that high school was over,
I guess we were desperate
For friends.
We had just one.
I forget how it happened.
That mutual friend was in the room,
Laughing, incredulous,
As we misused a piece of Saran wrap.
Adult Swim was on the TV,
I remember somehow.
The Saran wrap was not my idea,
And it sort of haunts me now.
Oh, well.
As the sun came up over Bellaire,
I knew I was different somehow.
Something new was inside me
That would calmly refuse to leave,
And I cried.
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