Kai (Chai)

in 6th grade I started buying GQ
no this is not a confession
of homosexual leanings,
although it was suspected at the time
I bought GQ because
i needed to know how to dress

a girl, a fantastically popular, beautiful girl
walked up to me in music class
and announced
Nigel Doesn't Match
I didn't know what she was talking about because
I didn't know what "matching" was

as a child I went through favorite color phases
a blue phase, red phase, and black phase, a mono-colored weirdo
my mother let me pick my clothes
and I exercised my choice with
what I thought was artistic flair
but all of that fell down one day
while playing the cymbals in music class