you enter junior high school,
skinny and shy,
it's then
that you
begin to learn how strange
and unusual
the world really is.
you're outside of your home,
away from your parent's
arms and eyes.
the PE teacher,
like a drill Sargent tells
you run,
to jump, to get in line,
someone throws
a ball at your head,
you climb a rope to the top
of the roof,
and then
they make you take
a shower
after gym
class with twenty
strangers. naked like
plucked chickens.
it's then that
you realize
that we're all just animals
doing our
best to survive,
and when you see the chalk
outlines
on the school
walls out back, of
men and women's genitals.
your heart is broken
for what lies ahead.
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