I Asked You Not To Say

I asked you not to say

“I could never take machine learning

with him. I would kill myself.”

or anything like that

I shared my stories

I didn’t want to police your speech

control what you said

but less than a week later you said

“after that exam I just wanted

to kill myself”

and all I felt was sad

maybe you had tried

or you had never listened in the first place


September 11