Never Have I Ever

[Animal Riots Activist]

                I didn't get offered
                smokes. I guess people assumed
                that I would                          
                                                  

   never                                                                                             

                 hurt my body in that way.
                 We got drunk and almost
                 fell off the bed.
                 We did other stuff too,
                 things I liked because I didn't    
                                                    

  have                                                                                                  

                to think. A month later,
                I was still making up work
                from that week I missed. I
                "had the flu". I was "fine"              
                                                 

     I...                                                                                         

                               

                lied. We smoked during
                fourth hour, in that alley
                behind school. I never thought
                I would want to remember...    
                                                 

   

 Oops.                                                                                 

Really nice use of space here, and really great inversion on the expected result at the end here. I think both really work to great effect. The content of the stanzas in between is also really sharp and well fleshed out, but not overdone either. I think this is a really complete poem you have here, thanks for the read!
-Em