opposites

My parents talk about moving, and I just roll my eyes. “Never.” I tell them, ignoring when they say that maybe, a time will come when I don't have a choice. “Until I graduate high school,” I say, “I'm not leaving Vermont.”

With the economy the way it is and IBM laying off workers everyday, conversations like that happen a lot. Although my parents complain about the cold, the isolation, and the smallness of the state we live in, I know that in their heart, they don't want to move either. They just like teasing me about it.

Vermont has one of the smallest populations in the country. Only Wyoming has less people, and even Wyoming has a bigger city than Burlington—the smallest largest city in a state.

Vermont is a state where once, cows outnumbered people. It's a state where sometimes, you have to stand on park benches to get service for your cell phone, and where the state capital doesn't have a McDonald's.

And that's why it is what it is.

20 chins

You lay
On my back

Stare at
The ceiling

Say penis
Like a child

Talk about
Poop sticks

Sigh
And say
Your eye
Is twitching

Grab my
iHome

State
That you'll
Plug it in

Finally do

I just
Write
Everything down
Laugh
At your reactions
To everything

So blunt
So out there

Not always
The best choice
Just always

You

I love
How we've
Become
Best friends

We tell
Each other

Everything

Laugh at
Each other's
Thoughts
Perceptions
Circumstances

And yet

We're always
There
And ready
To be
Understanding
Compassionate
Uplifting

I watch
Us

And smile
Loving how
We're opposites
North and south
Pulled together

Super magnets

Hope
We'll always
Be bestest friends

We always
Will be

I hate that I want you
You of all people
So out of my reach
I laugh at my own hopelessness
You who have your pick
Of twenty girls I assume
With much more experience then me
Why do I want you?
You, who are everything I'm not
Rash and foolish
Where I am serious and collected
My opposite in everything
I hate the way you do things
And I hate your cockiness, so much
But most of all
I hate that I want you
I hate it more than I hate you