are you the long winding road filled with doctor’s houses?

are you stolen cigarettes,
I N H A L E D after-school?

are you secrets-scratched-out in 6th period History?

are you lunches munched|crunched|stuffed behind bathroom doors,
P U R G E D after-fifth-period?

are you the fake lesbian artist with an absent father?
are you the cry[gay]by in the closet?

are you your grandfather’s anger during thanksgiving dinner?

are you stolen?

are you passed-out-drunk on a ceramic floor?

are you now the throttler?
the (one who was throttled)?