1.
i am so confused.
just where am i? what am i?
what is a “baby”?

2.
begin to find out
who i am, but my purpose
is a mystery

3.
three’s a nice number
please let me tell you my age?
i’m this many old!

4.
everything’s a game
the other kids aren’t like me
they’re so amusing!

5.
the hospital—ouch!
i hate the picks and the shots
do you do this, too?

6.
meow! in my mind
i was more cat than human
with beautiful fur

7.
i am anything
and anyone that i want
just imagine it

8.
read too much—trouble!
i punched her in the stomach
but she started it!

9.
played pokémon games
they were all the rage with us
all loved pikachu

10.
got tic-tacs in lunch
rather inexplicably
though i wanted cake

11.
learned i was different
always reading under desks
teacher hated it

12.
easy to excite
easily obsessive, too
always overboard

13.
irate, dark, sad child
what happened? i was happy
where could i have gone?

14.
crazy and angry
irresponsibility
could not handle it

15.
scared, stressed, silly girl
dumb freshman, wasting my time
me at age fifteen

16.
so stressed, overwhelmed
i’m so angry—why freak out?
it just worsens things

17.
unsure yet content,
waiting to see where i’ll go
i’ll get there, someday