It’s been a long while since I’ve talked with my fifteen year old self. Yes, this is how I spend an afternoon. Enjoy!

Poet15ic [2:27 PM]: hi
Poet15ic [2:27 PM]: hi
Pot22iec [2:28 PM]: Once is enough
Poet15ic [2:28 PM]: sorry
Pot22iec [2:28 PM]: so, what’s up?
Poet15ic [2:28 PM]: Well…..
Pot22iec [2:28 PM]: Yeah?
Poet15ic [2:29 PM]: Can you help me?
Pot22iec [2:29 PM]: I can’t help myself. Look at me
Poet15ic [2:29 PM]: I can’t. I mean, I can imagine what I’ll…what you look like, but…
Pot22iec [2:29 PM]: But what?
Poet15ic [2:29 PM]: I can’t be certain
Pot22iec [2:29 PM]: No you can’t. You’re learning
Poet15ic [2:30 PM]: So, will you help me?
Pot22iec [2:30 PM]: With what
Poet15ic [2:30 PM]: I’ve got this quiz tomorrow
Poet15ic [2:30 PM]: On Julius Ceasar
Pot22iec [2:30 PM]: Shakespeare?
Poet15ic [2:30 PM]: Yeo
Poet15ic [2:30 PM]: Yep
Poet15ic [2:31 PM]: Oops
Pot22iec [2:31 PM]: Mrs. Grovesnor’s class?
Poet15ic [2:31 PM]: That’s the one
Pot22iec [2:31 PM]: Shouldn’t you be in class now?
Poet15ic [2:31 PM]: I skipped
Pot22iec [2:31 PM]: Dumbass
Poet15ic [2:32 PM]: I didn’t feel good this morning
Pot22iec [2:32 PM]: That’s what you say
Poet15ic [2:32 PM]: So, will you help me?
Pot22iec [2:32 PM]: You don’t need my help
Pot22iec [2:33 PM]: And besides, I don’t know much about Ceasar
Poet15ic [2:33 PM]: What’d you get on the quiz
Pot22iec [2:33 PM]: I don’t remember
Pot22iec [2:33 PM]: I think, maybe a B or a C.
Poet15ic [2:33 PM]: Really?
Pot22iec [2:33 PM]: Yeah
Pot22iec [2:33 PM]: You’ve got nothing to worry about
Poet15ic [2:34 PM]: It just seemed so confusing
Pot22iec [2:34 PM]: It’s the language. You can’t let it intimidate you
Poet15ic [2:34 PM]: It does. And, if I want to teach, I’m going to have to really understand it
Pot22iec [2:34 PM]: No you don’t. I haven’t read Shakespeare since high-school
Pot22iec [2:35 PM]: It’s avoidable
Poet15ic [2:35 PM]: How much more is there?
Pot22iec [2:35 PM]: You get out of it in eleventh grade, but twelfth grade, they’ll bombard you
Poet15ic [2:35 PM]: And I survive?
Pot22iec [2:35 PM]: With a B or a C. I don’t remember
Poet15ic [2:35 PM]: Whew!
Poet15ic [2:36 PM]: That’s comforting.
Pot22iec [2:36 PM]: It should be
Poet15ic [2:36 PM]: So, what are you doing today?
Pot22iec [2:36 PM]: Relaxing. Enjoying things
Poet15ic [2:36 PM]: So, we’ve improved?
Pot22iec [2:36 PM]: Not entirely.
Pot22iec [2:37 PM]: Still living with the father, still working at Mcdonalds, still single….
Poet15ic [2:37 PM]: No wonder I stayed home today. There’s no point of going out
Pot22iec [2:37 PM]: That’s not true
Poet15ic [2:37 PM]: Yes it is! Look at you….at us!
Pot22iec [2:38 PM]: So?
Poet15ic [2:38 PM]: It’s a little pathetic, don’t you think?
Pot22iec [2:38 PM]: Not completely. Things are good
Poet15ic [2:38 PM]: How so?
Pot22iec [2:38 PM]: I’ve got good friends.
Pot22iec [2:38 PM]: Which is more than you can say
Poet15ic [2:38 PM]: I like my friends!
Pot22iec [2:39 PM]: You say that now….
Poet15ic [2:39 PM]: Do I keep any of them?
Pot22iec [2:39 PM]: One or two. And those evolve. And trust me, they aren’t the ones you expected
Poet15ic [2:40 PM]: is there even a point in asking who?
Pot22iec [2:40 PM]: Not really
Pot22iec [2:40 PM]: But….on the plus side….something did happen a few weeks ago to me…
Poet15ic [2:40 PM]: Yeah…?
Pot22iec [2:41 PM]: Oh, it’s nothing, really. Nothing you’d want to hear about
Poet15ic [2:41 PM]: What? What is it?!
Pot22iec [2:41 PM]: Well….I lost my virginity
Poet15ic [2:42 PM]: No f*cking way!
Pot22iec [2:42 PM]: To quote “Wayne’s World”, “way”.
Poet15ic [2:42 PM]: Awesome
Poet15ic [2:42 PM]: How was it?
Pot22iec [2:42 PM]: eh
Poet15ic [2:43 PM]: “eh”?
Poet15ic [2:43 PM]: Twenty-two years for pussy and all I get is an “eh”?
Pot22iec [2:43 PM]: twenty-three years
Poet15ic [2:43 PM]: Even better!
Poet15ic [2:44 PM]: What was wrong?
Pot22iec [2:45 PM]: Nothing was wrong
Pot22iec [2:45 PM]: It just wasn’t that great
Poet15ic [2:45 PM]: It has to be
Pot22iec [2:45 PM]: It isn’t
Poet15ic [2:45 PM]: What else do I have to look forward to?
Pot22iec [2:45 PM]: You fall in love in a year
Poet15ic [2:45 PM]: But I lose it, as you said
Pot22iec [2:45 PM]: It’s still good while it lasts
Poet15ic [2:45 PM]: But it dies!
Pot22iec [2:46 PM]: So? Everything dies
Poet15ic [2:46 PM]: And sex is good!
Pot22iec [2:46 PM]: You’re just saying that cause you haven’t tried it
Poet15ic [2:47 PM]: I could punch you now
Poet15ic [2:47 PM]: Punch you hard
Pot22iec [2:47 PM]: Violence-the answer for the brash and young
Poet15ic [2:47 PM]: Pessimism-the answer for the old and decaying
Poet15ic [2:48 PM]: What else sucks? Drinking, smoking, marriage?
Pot22iec [2:48 PM]: Don’t know about the last one, but the first two suck
Pot22iec [2:48 PM]: But then, we’ve always believed that
Poet15ic [2:48 PM]: I know. I was just testing you
Pot22iec [2:48 PM]: Did I pass?
Poet15ic [2:49 PM]: Only because you’re not married
Pot22iec [2:49 PM]: Hey
Poet15ic [2:49 PM]: what?
Pot22iec [2:49 PM]: Aren’t you interested in who I “lost” it to?
Poet15ic [2:49 PM]: Not really
Poet15ic [2:50 PM]: If it’s not enjoyable, why care?
Pot22iec [2:50 PM]: Her name was Liz
Poet15ic [2:50 PM]: I don’t care
Pot22iec [2:50 PM]: She had black hair
Poet15ic [2:50 PM]: Shut up!
Pot22iec [2:50 PM]: Was kind of chunky
Poet15ic [2:51 PM]: Maybe that’s it then
Pot22iec [2:51 PM]: What?
Poet15ic [2:51 PM]: You lost it to a fat chick
Pot22iec [2:51 PM]: I wouldn’t say she’s fat
Poet15ic [2:51 PM]: Chunky is close enough
Pot22iec [2:51 PM]: Not exactly
Poet15ic [2:52 PM]: You probably just weren’t feeling it
Poet15ic [2:52 PM]: That’s what it was
Pot22iec [2:52 PM]: If you say so
Poet15ic [2:52 PM]: I pretty much have to
Pot22iec [2:52 PM]: You don’t have to do anything
Poet15ic [2:52 PM]: And yes, that’s why I’m not in class
Pot22iec [2:53 PM]: brb
Pot22iec [2:59 PM]: back
Poet15ic [2:59 PM]: where’d you go?
Pot22iec [3:00 PM]: soda and piss break
Poet15ic [3:00 PM]: I love recycling!
Pot22iec [3:00 PM]: I forgot I was this witty
Poet15ic [3:00 PM]: Hey, I’ve got a few surprises
Pot22iec [3:01 PM]: Like you’re ability to improvise song parodies, your skill in naming all members of the Avengers?
Poet15ic [3:01 PM]: Grrrrrrr
Pot22iec [3:01 PM]: Let’s not forget, being able to name the release date of every film from 1995 to 1997
Pot22iec [3:01 PM]: Skills, by the way, you’ve lost
Poet15ic [3:02 PM]: No more song parodies?
Pot22iec [3:02 PM]: You can still pull them out of your ass, if needed
Poet15ic [3:02 PM]: When is an improvised song parody needed?
Pot22iec [3:02 PM]: Exactly
Pot22iec [3:03 PM]: You’re funnier now, if that’s any consolation
Poet15ic [3:03 PM]: It doesn’t make up for the bad sex
Pot22iec [3:04 PM]: I never said it would
Poet15ic [3:04 PM]: I never said you’d say it would
Pot22iec [3:04 PM]: I do comedy now
Poet15ic [3:04 PM]: Really?
Pot22iec [3:05 PM]: Yeah, as in stand-up
Poet15ic [3:05 PM]: what other kind is there?
Pot22iec [3:05 PM]: I don’t know…I could be a mime
Poet15ic [3:05 PM]: No you couldn’t.
Pot22iec [3:05 PM]: Your right
Pot22iec [3:05 PM]: It’s pretty fun though
Poet15ic [3:05 PM]: Are you any good
Pot22iec [3:06 PM]: I’m not as funny as you of course
Poet15ic [3:06 PM]: Age does that to you
Pot22iec [3:06 PM]: I was joking
Poet15ic [3:06 PM]: Naturally
Pot22iec [3:06 PM]: I do okay for myself. I performed last night
Poet15ic [3:06 PM]: How’d it go?
Pot22iec [3:07 PM]: It was a small crowd. Mostly comedians and friends.
Poet15ic [3:07 PM]: I didn’t ask who was there
Pot22iec [3:07 PM]: It went well
Poet15ic [3:07 PM]: Tell me a joke
Pot22iec [3:07 PM]: Okay, let me think for a sec…
Pot22iec [3:07 PM]: Jokes don’t work as well being read
Poet15ic [3:08 PM]: Are you going to make with the laughs or what?
Pot22iec [3:08 PM]: Alright…..I saw this homeless guy with a “will work for food sign”. I was going to give him money, but then, I figured he’d just spend it all on markers
Poet15ic [3:08 PM]: That’s not funny
Pot22iec [3:09 PM]: Umm…..Everytime I’m about to go to the exhibit on postmodernism at the art museum they push it back a year
Poet15ic [3:09 PM]: Ouch.
Poet15ic [3:10 PM]: Want some tumbleweeds to accompany the silence?
Pot22iec [3:10 PM]: Things would be silent if you did laugh
Poet15ic [3:10 PM]: Which I don’t think is going to happen, based on your crappy jokes
Pot22iec [3:10 PM]: They aren’t crappy!
Pot22iec [3:11 PM]: You just didn’t get them
Poet15ic [3:11 PM]: I understood them. I understood them to not be funny
Poet15ic [3:11 PM]: You unfunny person, you
Pot22iec [3:12 PM]: One more chance?
Poet15ic [3:12 PM]: Fine….
Pot22iec [3:13 PM]: I like watching black horror movies. Because then I have to guess who dies first
Poet15ic [3:13 PM]: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Poet15ic [3:13 PM]: Now that’s funny!
Pot22iec [3:13 PM]: really?
Pot22iec [3:14 PM]: I thought it was the weakest of the three
Poet15ic [3:14 PM]: No, that’s totally the keeper
Pot22iec [3:14 PM]: You sure?
Poet15ic [3:15 PM]: Positive. If you can’t trust your own intuition, who can you trust?
Pot22iec [3:15 PM]: That’s true.
Pot22iec [3:15 PM]: Well, I gotta go rework some jokes
Poet15ic [3:15 PM]: Good luck, and don’t try so hard
Pot22iec [3:15 PM]: Bye
Poet15ic [3:15 PM]: Bye

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