my history mid-term
by allison lange

my history midterm
will be a performance
in mediocrity
because i sit here
weaving a net of words
trying to capture a dream
i hope you like
the simpleness in me
why must you
harsh my mellow?

COLLEGE!

I remember that college thing.... nonstop beer, acid, poker, and fucking. Lots and lots of fucking. We didn't have Tribe back then, so all there was to do was get drunk and fuck. And then on the weekends we'd do acid and watch Werner Herzog movies, and fuck.

Actually I barely got laid in college, ever. But I did drink quite a bit, and take acid, mushrooms when available, and read everything by R. Buckminster Fuller. Wait, actually my first quarter at Antioch I really did have a lot of sex. But then I fell in love with my boss on my first New York co-op, and we were totally monogamous from that point forward.

Until we broke up, because I wasn't even done with college and she already had three kids from two marriages and was nineteen years older than me. It was my decision. What a dipshit I was back then. Oh, well. I'm happy now. All that Bucky Fuller under my belt makes me a better person, who has better sex. I really miss the cheap acid, and Cooper Real Ale.