middle school
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She’s the perfect girl
Beautiful, Smart, and Kind
Can get pretty irresistible at times
I just need some time
To pray to the lord
To make this soul so divine
I’m bored at home
My Angel
She’s the perfect woman
I just need some time
To pray to the lord
To make this soul so divine
Any time you make a new friend.
They might just be the one to make your life bend.
Friends can be great, honest, and have the right intentions.
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“so, when should we have sex?”
her lips were cherry pink and quivering with insecure verve.
(did she have braces yet?)
I took my head from off the glass,
My nose plastered at an unatural point,
I take a deep breath and swallow,
The ice crystals forming on my eyelashes.
I keep my head up, and after class,
Every weekday is agony.
Dread the time it takes to learn.
Beg the clock to tick faster.
Get on your knees and pray
to a being that you’ll soon forsake.
the locker room.
the catholic confession room
for eighth grade girls,
only to collect their
tears into empty perfume
bottles and to be
sprayed onto their
collarbones.
Eyes glazed over like there's a dead girl
inside a barely functioning body.
It makes people uncomfortable,
but most never question why,
like bad stuff doesn't happen in this neighborhood.
Twelve years old with a huge fabric binder,
a new pair of shoes,
and the exact same wardrobe as the year before.
The shoes were maroon and grey
and "only cost fifteen dollars!" my mom said.
I don't remember when I first heard the word
I don't remember when I first knew what it meant
I don't remember anyone telling me
I look into my past through old poems.
each yellowing page
telling another story of that sadness;
dark and full of worry.
I read and learn from them now;
Are my braces that obvious?
The colors have to match my outfit
One day, he'll notice me.
Should I ask him to the dance?
Boys are the worst!
Did you hear about Anne?
In eighth grade, we had Science class together. You had sat in the row behind me until the seats were switched and we became partners.
Do you know what I would give to be partners with you again?
How, Just how did i pass math, and honer roll? I dont understand, Im falling behind, yet i make it past? 7th Grade and still cant cach up.
The sun spreads out like a golden poolOver the newly shorn fieldsThe halls smell like wax, fresh ink and new cottonCarried along with a tide of bodiesI remember suddenly that
A new life
Potential with no seeming end
A new beginning, no sign of strife
But to begin, however, is also to end
A military child
Moving from state to state
Laugh all you wantAt that girl over there.She honestly does notGive a single care.Go right ahead.Give her funny looks.Laugh at that girlFor reading her books.Call her mean names
1. I am a princess.
I am a mommy's girl
Innocent and preppy and loved
by my family.
I am done with baby bottles,
But only barely.
I am still a child.
2. I am an Arizona girl.
I’m the quiet one
who talks
too quickly under the bright lights of a school
I’m the one on the sidelines
the only one watching
without better things to do
