Can’t You See

by Scott Lentine, Guest Blogger

Can’t you see

I just want to have a friend

Can’t you see

I need the same connections in the end

Can’t you see

I want a good job

Can’t you see

I need to have stability and be part of the general mob

Can’t you see

I want to be independent on my own

Can’t you see

I want to be able to have my own home

Can’t you see

I want the same things as everyone else

Can’t you see

I want to be appreciated for myself

 

Scott Lentine is a 25 year old with autism (PDD-NOS/Asperger’s) from Billerica, MA, outside of Boston and summer resident of Marshfield, MA. He graduated from Merrimack College in 2010 with a Bachelor’s in Religious Studies and minor in Biology. He currently works as both an administrative assistant/public policy intern at The Arc of Massachusetts in Waltham and as an administrative assistant at his father’s law office in Billerica. His poems have received accolades from Ms. Magazine cofounder Letty Cobrin Pogrebin, comedian Jonathan Katz, voiceover actor Cam Clarke (best known as the voice of Leonardo on “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”), movie and TV trailer announcer Ben Patrick Johnson, and many others.