Things That Happened To Me In Highschool Poem by Lauren Zuniga

Things that happened to my in high school,
That would not be appropriate for me to talk about in a high school:

Ronda cornered me in the bathroom and asked me
How many guys I'd slept with anyway.
When I shyly answered three she smacked her gum and said
"With the way people talk thought it would be way more. "

I washed an entire bottle of aspirin down with chocolate milk
Because I thought it would kill me.
My mom found me on the bathroom floor covered in vomit,
I still can't drink chocolate milk without gagging.

Someone successfully killed themselves every year
At my private christian high school.
Scotts brother carved "freedom" into his chest
Before he blew his brains out.
I tried to jump from the roof.