15

i remember getting busted
by a mailman
my hand
up the skirt
of a Narden girl.

i remember
thinking
doc martin's
would last forever.

i remember being a clerk
at Red Apple
when someone told me
i resembled Trey
and my night
going more smoothly
from then on.

i remember another
customer
suggesting i bed sisters
because "everyone outta have
sisters at least once"

and never having
sisters
once.

i remember making love
to Bjork's
Homogenic:

dragging down
her baby
blue straps
exposing her
tiny breasts

before kissing
her belly

her goosebumped body
standing before me
young and
unpredictable.

i remember disposing
of condoms in
sewer vents on
midnight walks home.

i remember smoking
cigarettes at
Perkins Family
Restaurant believing
i would be
the next.