The thing about being me is that
even after 17 years I still feel like an algorithm underdeveloped
for its years --
sometimes I listen to a song until I'm bored to death of it
and buy new shoes even though I have ones that fit.
I admit, I wake in the night to watch suspicious looking piles of clothes
and secretly like the movies that I call "boring" and "old."
I am flawed, deeply
but I'm full of passion too
and everything I know, 
I know because of you.

The thing about being you is that
even after 19 years you still think there's a paradise behind all these
treacherous tears,
sometimes you speak until we don't know the meaning of words
and love whatever it is that you've recently learned.
it's true, you'd drink ginger beer from a tap
and have a marriage pact with afternoon naps.

If you're deeply flawed
then I guess I am too
for the thing about being me, dear sister
is that I'll always want to be like you.

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