remember

/rəˈmembər/ to have an image in your mind of a person, a place, or something that happened

it slipped my mind, that i cannot

forget, those strange days

in California. all the dope-secrets

pretending I was just,

a girl living in

shock-matrix of alternate facts

on the daily, unmothered, othered, I want-

ed to be someone other. slip into her skin, in

her blue jeans, fresh from the

line. i'd disappear inside her. and forget,

to remember those strange days in California,

and the dope-secrets and the pretending-

and the other girl who wanted

to be someone else.