She sniffed
two lines
off her student card,
with her name and dates
then
two lines down
it said medicine, with a smiling face
and a big college emblem.

Two weeks later
she sits
in a bathroom in a new flat
staring at a pissy stick
two pink lines
stare back at her.

The day moves quick,
she rings me, she cries,
I console, she screams-
How? When she did everything
right
the morning after and
he hasn't even texted her.

We call a conference,
best friends pull change
from bank accounts,
communion savings,
credit unions. We all
pile in. Get the girl to England.
Get her to a hospital.
Get her a degree,
we're all in it now.