I left. When I should have stayed.

“I repeat his words in my head. What's going on? What's going on? Oh, well, sinc…”

“If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your …”

“I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I…”

“Around the opposite sex, especially back then, my tongue twisted into knots eve…”