she used to say,
I want to go to a small school
where no one locks their doors
and everyone knows each
other

she came from a big high school
so many kids in the hallways
and naturally she got used to
being able to slip though the cracks

of the system and avoid the world,
to use the people to hide from the
people. oh, how she hated the people.
and now suddenly she is seeing

that in order to blend in and be quietly,
in order to hide from the people, you
need to be where there are lots of people.
humans are paradoxes in everything else

they do. why not this too.