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Being a boy MAG
September 3, 2018
I was never one of them
I used to say it was my independence
My eyes have changed
I think more about it now
The chase
The quest for appeasement
Rites of passage
Like a checklist
I was and am slower to go about it
Self-consciousness fills me up inside
I feel the disconnect
Never feeling the drive, the desire
I don't know what to think of it
Is it my pursuit of organic existence
Is it their fulfillment of conventions
I've grown okay with not understanding it all
At least I tell myself
There are more important things to worry aboout
© Olivia M., Brooklyn, NY
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