Mountain Dew

I wore a vacant expression-

Under the stairs

in the dark.

The crowd had departed,
smells of stale popcorn and
Marlboro cigarettes was enough
to make anyone nauseated,

but I was only fourteen-
it wasn't the odor in the air
that made me ill with anxiety
filled butterflies....

It was the boy sitting next to me-

with a vacant expression

under the stairs

in the dark.

I kissed a boy I hardly knew
with cotton candy stuck to his shoe,
all I could taste was surgery, sweet
Mountain Dew....

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Just a teenage memory I felt like writing,
decided to be playful with the format and
add a fun rhyme stanza at the end.