Someday I’ll live in New York and
I won’t think of you

I’ll have a new favorite coffee shop
pretend I didn’t come from such humble beginnings
and hide you like a secret

I’ll clothe myself in name-brands I can’t name
and try to swallow the ache in my throat 
when I think of you

I’ll wear my pride like Prada 
and wash myself with a false sense of security
Walk into my home filled with new antiques
and sleep in my bed made for the restless

Fifteen minutes of fame
is not near enough time for
all the pretending I have left to do

My life will be a wheel that 
never stops turning long enough 
for air to fill my lungs

Years from now
I’ll do it all again
start from the same nothings
in a new place
leaving the key under the doormat

I should say goodbye to you too, New York

Audrey L. Kinninger

Audrey Kinninger is a freshman at Miami University
majoring in Business Analytics and minoring in Actuarial Science. She spends her time writing, reading, hammocking, hiking, and bouldering, and when she has time away from school, she loves to travel. She is thrilled to be accepted into Brainchild, and enjoys any chance she gets to share her writing with others.