I knew Laura Dentt Stevens,
intimately perhaps, sharing
the same space
for a while, trading thoughts
and the ultimate fuck you
to the outside world
who thought we were
irrelevant students,
I was too old to have an opinion,
my thoughts immaterial,
unrelated to the hip and groovy
paid by the latest clothes and fashions;
she was, to my mind,
sarcastic, but fun, the kind
of girl who got the point
of existence, which was not
to exist,
or at least not to be an arse about it;