I'm Perfect, You're Doomed by Kyria Abrahams

Author:Kyria Abrahams [Abrahams, Kyria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2009-10-10T07:00:00+00:00

It’s very validating, at age 16, to have a 24-year-old boyfriend. Especially if you are way too mature for high school because kowtowing to some rigid concept of education is for lemmings and conformists. Especially if you’re a poet, an artist, and your favorite member of The Breakfast Club is Ally Sheedy. Especially, then, if your 24-year-old boyfriend is a part-time math professor at a local college, you have therefore received validation that high school is lame.

Around this time, I took to shuffling through the cafeteria in ankle-length skirts and doing the unspeakable—eating lunch alone. Not because I wanted to be alone, but because I wanted the other kids to know I was capable of being alone. It was one thing I’d seen adults do, but never teenagers. I brought a disturbing lunch, usually cold spaghetti in a stained Tupperware container. Beyond “uncool,” this was just shy of saving bread crusts for pigeons. I opened a copy of Otto Rank’s Art and Artist. I drew a skull. I was officially above it all.

My first step to being above it all was to write poetry in a cemetery located on a well-trafficked main road next to an elementary school. But this was no ordinary modern cemetery on a well-trafficked main road next to an elementary school, oh no! This was my own Secret Garden, and the empty Zima bottles and discarded grocery store circulars were but keys through her enchanted gates! Surely, some dashing young rebel would find me here, the quirky loner, the deep and solitary artist, splayed out in the grass like the heroine of Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World—not going forward, yet not going back. Would that I might bewitch you?

I wasn’t alone. No. I had my poetry.

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