when mindy myers drove the car into the library

in high school

when it was Mindy 

Myers turn

to drive

the big four door Buick,

the whale of a car that

we used for drivers education

she hopped

the curb

and hit the pole that

held up

the library.

tilting books,

and throwing magazine

racks to the floor.

i remember looking

out the window

at her crying,

feeling sorry for her.

she went from

safely existing under the wire,

being a nobody,

but not anymore.