There's only two things I'm sure about what I am, almost everything else needs to be proven still.

Well, what are they for starters?

I know I was born to be a vegetarian, that nobody could have influenced me in anyway to not have turned into it and nobody talked me into it or any funny peer pressure business going on. I didn't even know any vegetarians when I became one. And I've only met one that I know of in real life before.

It's who I am in. And I couldn't be anything else.

You don't know how refreshing that thought it is.

The other one, it's something I have to admit too even though I deny it half the time. I can't deny it, per se, but I can still say just because it's a part of who I am doesn't mean I'm any good at being it.

I'm a poet.

I can't remember a time when I didn't have poems. Sure there's been a lot of times when I didn't write them...but I'd stop living if I ever stopped thinking them.

I wouldn't know how to do anything or be able to anymore.

And this too is something I came out without it ever being around me. So I know it's me.

I remember before I started school, standing alone with a hand wrapped around a pole after spinning. I'd sing to myself without a song voice...just speaking it.

About the fences and holes in them

and this jagged rock laying in between us

like the one my brother gashed his head on

like the one it felt like was shifting inside me

and I said this and other things to the wind

someone heard me and came to see what I was wanting

so I shut up then, and they thought I was crazy.

Here's where it starts.

Here, with young words kept to myself.

Is how it all came to be this mesh.

And I still don't know much more about myself, but I'm a vegetarian poet, crazy and depressed.