I am from apple orchards, muck farms,
        and yellow boxes of film.
I am from the college bars featuring Canadian woodsmen
        and Air Force men dancing to Purple Rain and Pressure.
I am from silent classrooms filled with only the sound of pens scratching on paper
        and classrooms made raucous by a zoo-based role-playing game.
I am from a silenced alarm clock
        and emptied calendar with only daily Blackboard check-ins to ground me.