There Is No Safer. There’s

I Cry To Let Everything Out

It's Easier To Floss With Barbed Wire Than Admit You Like Someone In Middle School.

Why? You Want To Know Why? Step Into A Tanning Booth And Fry Yourself For Two Or Three Days. After Your Skin Bubbles And Peels Off, Roll In Coarse Salt, Then Pull On Long Underwear Woven From Spun Glass And Razor Wire. Over That Goes Your Regular Clothes, As Long As They Are Tight.

For One Moment We Are Not Failed Tests And Broken Condoms And Cheating On Essays; We Are Crayons And Lunch Boxes And Swinging So High Our Sneakers Punch Holes In The Clouds.

They Say They Have Noticed Me Drawing. I Almost Tell Them Right Then And There. They Noticed.