It was almost two months after I graduated from Oak Ridge High School in Orlando, Florida… which was my fourth different school in as many years. At last, I was on my own, and headed… somewhere? All was very unclear when I wrote this. Having moved out of my mom’s apartment within a week of graduating, and moved in with a fellow ’84 Oak Ridge grad, I was trying to figure out how to become an adult. A couple of years after writing this, ‘The Nil’ was published in the 1986 American Poetry Anthology. The Nil by Roger Darnell Accepting…
