I run.
I know nothing about my destination,
Except that it's away from you.

I forgot my shoes in the carpet of your aunt's house.

I run barefooted along the highway.

How did I get to be this far off the edge of sanity?

Was I ever close to the edge?

What about kindergarten?
When I cut off a chunk of Vanessa's hair because it was longer and swishier than mine.

Or fifth grade,
When I lit matches in the girls bathroom in school just for attention.

In eighth,
When I attacked my principle because he took one look at me and shook his head.
The bastard.

I've always been crazy. So I lay down in the dry brown grass by the passing cars, and I sleep.

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