different fork, a start free of luggage, of chains, and where does the split happen then? what avenues would have opened, a new what if, the some establishment, some rocks laid down, but would wings have spread and flown? maybe, maybe down the hall, maybe an opening there, a chance for something different, embracing the hall, as i did too long ago, as a social scene, and what would have changed then? maybe spit turns to something more, and maybe I stay in shepard, and new friends, different friends, the years that follow, school, a renewed interest, focus? maybe, maybe an earlier start, but what was, no longer was, no plex? different summers, maybe theater sooner, other doors I walked through instead of past.