• I don't know you
    but there you lay
    in black and white
    a paragraph
    of your sixteen years

    they forget about the time
    your gum got caught in your hair
    and you cut off
    your only golden curls

    or that time you flooded the laundry room
    and missed your softball game
    cleaning up the mess

    but wait
    that was me
    and this is you

    a tiny, printed section
    on my page
    next to an ad for America Online


    " you can talk to anyone,anywhere"
    but you can't
    I can't
    ant that's what happend

    had you planned it out?
    like i had
    what happend to you ?
    did you crash your mommy's car?
    did you crack your porcelain smile?
    did you get a C in science?
    did you try to talk?
    but were silenced
    or worse
    ignored?

    you could have been like me
    or me like you


    but i blinked
    and never saw you the halls
    eyes never met
    paths never crossed
    life's little joke
    on you
    no more
    than an ink stain
    on my paper