Like Me
“No, I’m not going to the party,” I say
she sneers back at me,
her superiority-complex
evident in the rhetoricality
of the inquiry
Bitch, I want to add
Like,
“No, I’m not going to the party, Bitch”
and quietly go back
to the polynomials
that I’m working on
Yeah, I’d like that
I long to be a person
who says those things
that tells it how it is
and isn’t afraid of the retort
as long as I said the truth and
defended myself
Most importantly
I want to stand up for the person
who doesn’t cause drama
who apologizes when they wrong you
and to whom conceit doesn’t come naturally
However for today
I’ll just sit quietly in
the third row
right in the center
not too close but not too far
to hear what they say
about people like me
