Nineteen

Nineteen

Nineteen years old

Private catholic college

Wishing I was Ginsberg

Writing Howl

With the angelheaded hipsters

Listening to jazz

Nineteen years old

Wearing Nike sneakers

Wishing I was Dylan

Writing songs

Wearing boots of spanish leather

Smoking cigarettes

Nineteen years old

Waiting on the weekend

Wishing I was Holden

Leaving this

For the streets of New York City

Watching carousels

Nineteen years old

Cincinnati suburbs

Wishing I was Lincoln

Freeing slaves

Saying we will live forever

Or die by suicide

Nineteen years old

All my friends around me

Wishing I was Charlie

Writing letters

Sticking my head out in the tunnel

Feeling Infinite

Nineteen years old

Standing in a city

Wishing I was Vernon

In a Cabin

Writing thick falsetto poems

Come on skinny love

Nineteen years old

Healthy, Happy, Living

Wishing I was Treplev

Shooting seagulls