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Pack Animals

by Hakim Bellamy

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Commissioned for the University of New Mexico First Year Family Day August 21, 2022.

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Pack Animals
For University of New Mexico First Year Family Day

by hakim bellamy

One day you are going to tell your children about this.

About all the firsts.
The first day
and the day after.

The first date
and the second.

The first dare you made
to yourself.

And since your generation
is statistically less likely to have children
than my generation…

one day
you are going to tell someone else's kid about this.

About the first test…
all stage fright and test anxiety…
about the all nighters

followed by the sudden
and clinically inexplicable
test day onset of Alzheimer's symptoms
that inevitably comes

with not enough.

About your last party…
the stage fright
the social anxiety
the "I will never do this again"
the all nighter

that ones that come with the statistical certainty
of “next day” memories made and lost

the kind that comes with age

and too much.

One day…
kids are going to tell other kids about this!

About the off campus aquarium
and the Animal House.

About the proper way to
paper airplane IN CLASS
(ANY class, not just 1st…)
and the proper way to Homecoming GameDay parade.

About all the concert camping,
the round-trip road trips
to and from.

About being into astrology…
every single star we almost met (that one time…)
and all the faults in ours
that we can never seem to escape.

About the uncharacteristic quiet
of strolls across the quad at midnight
during exam time…

and the pantomime of pupils
during the passing periods between classes,

broad daylight

back before Airpods and bluetooth headphones
made everybody their very own silent disco.

One day
someone else’s kid is going to tell someone else’s kid about this.

AND THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT?

Nuh-uh?
Uh huh.

Nuh-uh?
Uh huh.

Nuh-uh?
Uh huh!



Because one day
these next few laps around the sun will amount to something.
And though we cannot reasonably pretend

that this

is nothing more than a blip on the cardiogram
that is the universal nature of time…

…I can promise you this,
to somebody you may
or may never know

Your short story
will become a tall tale,

all dragons and dreams and
dandruff
in distress.

Your legend.
Written…

one day.
One decision.
One class.
One line

at a time.

And someday,
some school

is going to tell its kids about this.

© Hakim Bellamy August 10th, 2022

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released August 21, 2022
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