I Am From

(a little more)

I am from a life where

childhood is memory I most often describe

not all those years after for example

George Washington University I went

to college there because of an article

I read waiting for my mother

at Claudine’s Hair Salon

in a magazine an impressive woman

at Yale Law School she’d gone to GW

I wrote her a letter she invited me to lunch

we ate on Chapel Street in New Haven

I wanted dessert but didn’t order it

was dessert somehow unserious

how did you become you I asked

not sure who I wanted to become long before

I had a chance to discuss this subject

with Paid Professionals and the woman

had an answer which included in a prominent

way George Washington University so I

took a train to look at the school not knowing

what I was looking at how to evaluate

anything much walked around the streets

thinking Maybe I Could Be Happy Here.