Cursive

I walked around in someone
else’s contact lens and found

myself. Empathy teaching
replaced geography for the

most part. I don’t do fractions.
The Wide, Wide World is a

book I did a Lacanian analysis
of. I was obsessed with mirrors

and the psychological break
between Ellen and her mother.

Jo read the book in Little Women.
My mom and I both wanted to

be her and marry a professor
with a big black umbrella.

My eyes are dry. I don’t know
what is important anymore.