when I was younger

 i'd put my arms in my shirt

 and told people I lost my arms

i'd restart the video game 

whenever i knew 

i was going to lose

 i'd sleep with all the stuffed animals

so none of them would get offended

i poured my soda into the cap 

and acted 

like I was taking shots

i would wait behind a door to scare someone,

 but soon leave

 because they were taking too long

 or i had

to pee

i would fake being asleep

 so my dad would carry me to bed

      and i used to think

             that the moon

                    followed my car

i had the pen with six colors,

and i'd tried pressing them all down at once

i'd watched those two drops of rain

roll down the window pane

and pretended it was a race.

remember the younger years? 

remember when we couldn't wait to grow up?

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-a.m.