Grown Up

The last time I felt grown up was
Summer 1991: We caught a garden
snake... I let the snake loose
(on accident!) and it died behind
mom's water bed. We painted flies'
wings until they couldn't--fly.
We sat up all night on piles
of inflated inner tubes watching
MTV; we were the shit. We made
fantastic mustard sandwiches...
and I rapped Twinkle Twinkle
Little Star until I died laughing, and
you taught me to spell 'ghost.'