And a Homecoming Queen

I shut the bathroom door and locked it---vigorously

and then I sighed

and let the room fill right up

because I liked steamed vegetables

and I smiled

and drew on the mirror---

little seahorses and maps of archipelagos that didn't exist

And when I was spraying apricots and peaches everywhere---

'so this is what it means to have your head in the clouds'

It was there--in the breathlessness of man made fog,

that I decided

with great perspicaciousness---

'I think I'll stay a bit longer'