Susan Pogorzelski

You’re so mean when you talk About yourself. You were wrong. Change the voices in your head Make them like you instead. - Pink, “Fuckin’ Perfect” Eleven. The air is turning markedly warmer as a breeze cuts through the trees that line the playing field near the school. It’s restless, and so are we as shouts accompany the bounce of a ball and the scuff of sneakers. We’re wild at play under the canopy of this mid-afternoon sunshine…The teachers know they can’t confine us in