THAT period of life

“Dairy makes me break out.”

A college girl sips a sugar-loaded latte in the library café.

“I’ve switched to oat milk. It’s so much healthier.”

Somehow the essay your life depended on two weeks ago

is already lost in your trash folder.

“Oh my gosh, let’s be gym buddies!”

Sorority sisters at a New Year’s Eve party resolve to work out.

Two weeks later they’re strangers again.

Squirrels on college campuses:

petty thieves,

chattering gossips,

scrambling latecomers.

I wonder who they imitate.

College students have countless uses for campus libraries.

None of them involves borrowing books.

Who on earth would be that old-fashioned?