1.04.2012

1997 (Rough Draft)

I came awake in Kindergarten, but decided against it.
So I closed my eyes, sucked my thumb and woke up the next morning: It was 1997.
A May 1997.
And May 1997 ended with a burning suicide of my half-brother Christopher.

There was therapy,
therapy,
therapy.

After my release, I was convicted of 15 suspensions at Mark Twain Elementary School; the crowning achievement was choking American Idol 3rd place runner-upper’ Haley Reinhart with a jump rope. But this time it really was Simon’s fault.
But Simon was young. I was young.

I’m still sort of young. Simon is somewhere in Michigan.
I still can’t seem to grow out of my clothes, though.



-sonja lynn mata

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