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before ballpoint pen graffiti on bathroom stalls

there was my name in pencil on pg. 79

of the library’s copy of “ramona the pest”

and a tic-tac-toe-shaped scar

on nana’s cherry wood dresser

even encased like a yolk in my water sack

i had to leave stretch marks

almost instinctive

the urge to impress, even if I do not last

i was Here