by Tiffanie Dzietror
Poetry Winner, 2017 VSU Student Writing Contest
after Audre Lorde’s “Hanging Fire”
I am twenty-one
and my hair has betrayed me
the boy with the long dreads and the Jodeci pick up lines
screws everything that walks
except me
how come I love writing but
cant finish any writing
what if IIII die
before morning
and my roommates in her boyfriends room
and comes back and just thinks im sleeping
I have to get my grades up
before the next line
and I cant fit all my crap in my bags ever
always got a sore shoulder
and if I drop out and default my loans
they’ll surely come for me
sometimes I want to get away and
others I just want to stay
and really just go read a book
in my nook on the third floor with no one
around
and my roommate will return from the beach
and still think im sleep
and ill wish things were different and someone
saw me but ill go on believing it’ll happen one day
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