I have great tenderness for the girl I was in college,
in the midwest.
Who did not yet understand
Why I was attracted
to a boy known as ‘Angry Matt’ in the dorms,
and to the others.
I needed to be the bad boy.
And invite in my own chaos
Instead of theirs.
Mirroring
“How I long to fall just a little bit, and dance out of the lines, and stray from the light.” -Dar Williams, From the song ‘Iowa’