Second Person
After all, wounds weep before they’re healed.
After all, wounds weep before they’re healed.
There are many white people in Grand Rapids, and gossiping about dog breeds is, I guess, what we do.
So during my sixth and final semester at Calvin, I waited.
and waited.
and waited.
Vegeta, it turns out, is snotty, entitled, hot-headed, easily manipulated by evil influences, and ultimately, just less powerful than Goku (not to say that’s why I was losing).
Several things happen at once: ba-boom. Flicker. Shatter.
The house listed around 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, we walked through it at 3:30, and we wrote on it by 11:00 a.m. Friday. We weren’t the first offer.
The memory of their faces in this moment is one of two life events that can make me cry on cue.
This workshop is tuition-free, assignment-free, and pretty stress-free, but soon I’ll be back at my own school, and the cloud of duties will descend.
“Con · ces · sion:
a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands;
a thing conceded.”
I arrived in the Benj by accident, and yet it has been maybe the thing I’ve missed most about moving away from Grand Rapids.