over/looking/the kid at the front/back of the classroom

your mother/hacked together skeleton wings into two-part pieces/bleeding stars, you thought/neurons fizzing out/you had all the time in the the universe/your eyes dripped down/the back of your spacesuit/a so-called prodigy ghost/acid smoke and ashes like grey planet dust/the moon is waning/you dip your hands in bak kut teh (it burns)/astronaut helmet with a child-friendly glass window/watch everyone from your box/time-out at recess/math grades and jack stauber/lavender arteries like your grandfather’s old letters saying/i’m sorry/you didn’t want to grow up into/failure in red circles, a footnote/graffiti on the neon walls of the public restroom/etiquette is smiling when you get slapped in the face/how does it feel to be/rejected and so beautifully praised