Because I was young and breathed, trembling, and cried too much, too often
And I asked my mother permission to bury me
They stuck me in many many cars
And told me to get better, however and whatever
getting better meant to me.
And there I sat
In the back seat, shotgun, driver’s seat of my
Cereal-scarred mini-van,
I discovered therapy and hated it for its obsolescence, because I didn’t need a doctor to tell me I was sick, I needed the cure
Which no one told me I could have, because I
“Needed to find it for myself.”
“Wasn’t all that bad, really.”
They saw my sins written up to my elbows and
The longer