I Missed

I missed game three for our first date.

East coast games are early; we were late.

I remember how you always used to laugh

That my hair was longer by an inch and a half,

When I was an inch and a half taller than you.

I remember looking for something to do

and finding the most ridiculous things –

Taking a Rorschach test on a butterfly's wings

Or a drive to a newly-built school in town

Where your family's first house was, 'til they tore it down.

I remember the first song we heard on the radio,

But don't ask me what your birthday was. Now, I don't know.