Why Do You Care?
‘Why do you care so much?’
asked the boy with a Pepsi
clasped in his hands, which
was previously deemed
lesser to Coke
in a strange conversation
at eleven thirty-two
the night of college orientation.
'I don’t know.'
I dismiss the query with a shrug
and look to the fire
surrounded by hungry teens
hungrier than we
who are huddled on plastic chairs
surrounded by itchy plants
and silence.
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