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The Middle School Girls

The Middle School Girls

Addie loves Michelle

She does not love Victoria

Victoria loves Lois

who also does not love Addie

A girl has to belong

to someone

or she is no one

wandering the jungle of girls

who comb each others hair

like monkeys picking nits

They laugh, slightly strangling

none too confident of their place

in the grooming line

wary of being bumped

by a more attractive

smarter girl

one who perhaps

doesn't care so much

or at least seems not to

wearing a shield of indifference

and hairspray

Later, she will hold the lighter

close to her stiff bangs

to show she doesn't care

Her face will be fine

She'll hold a funeral for her hair

She'll move on

Lucy Simpson

Seattle

5/2/2008