Act I: Lemon Hall
i got accepted
and i figured, i needed
to take my chances
go south, far from
my family's grasp
they dropped me off
and set up my stuff
had good food
and argued like we
somehow always managed to
moving in,
so happy to be free
i did not miss my old life
ready to start anew
who comes here, belongs here
and for the first time in
my life at that point
i believed it
and i really did belong
though it took some time
to find my friends
that would define this chapter
of my life
where i learned that time flies
when you're having fun
the first year of my college experience
spent in a nice dorm with AC
studying, reading, and watching House, M.D.
while eating cheese cubes at my desk
just doing what i needed to do
i started hormones that year
because i was finally free to
and it was a new chapter in my
life, a clean break from old habits
painting my nails and catching fish
and then it ended
my family came back down
to help me move all my shit
into a storage locker
arguments resumed
and i left, not having grown
attached, still deluding myself
with the idea that i'd still
go and be a medical doctor
which would make my parents happy
and then maybe i would be happy.