College

Red brick roads,

Cafeteria food and experimental milkshakes,

Chemistry equations and chairs that squeak,

Biology lectures and a man with whiteish teeth,

Late nights in a hell-hot room,

Laughter and existential music,

Boys and more boys,

Broken hearts,

Walgreens walks,

Communal bathrooms and someone’s hair in the sink,

Piles of homework not yet done,

Netflix traps and boxes of tissues,

Homesickness and phone calls,

Broken textbooks and shitty essays,

Salted sidewalks and sweetened coffee,

Just getting by.