Where I'm From

Where I’m From

I am from laser guns and Barbie dolls

From ladybugs and elephants

I am from the sledding hill all covered in snow

I am from my grandmother’s

For my name is theirs

I am from Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis at the tender age of seven

From the Michael Jackson disease and dinosaurs in my ears

I am from zombies and shrunken heads

From dead relatives in my closet

I am from “another day another ‘A’”

And “if you don’t drink you don’t get drunk”

I am form the inspirational notes left by a younger me

From Morgan’s, Gibbon’s, Black’s, and Fritze’s

I am from pictures plastered on the walls

From red stuff and green stuff of gelatinous deliciousness

I am from family secrets

From sunflowers and aloe

I am from rotten fruit and un-cleaned clothes

I am from water bottles and leg lamps

And golden fish mobiles

I am from books old and new

From education too

I am from Alaskan scenes

From loud bi-pap machines

I am from the philosophy

Don’t believe what you can’t see

I am my future now and then

I am from the beginning

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