How I Became a Native Son

Darrel Alejandro Holnes

I had just moved to the Upper East Side.

It was raining really hard so

I looked out my window concerned

for my new city, but oddly

rain just poured

on my building. This confused

and depressed me. How typical

for the heavens to single me out

for their wrath! Then I realized

it was just window washers.

And I felt relieved, and suddenly

unspecial.

after Jay Kuo