Hsiao Wei Chen Poems

She is strangely superstitious.
She looks for signs,
no,
she chases them.
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'Strange Little Girl'

Title from Tori Amos' 'Strange Little Girl'
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She takes the train everyday.
She stands at the station and waits
for the wave of people
like ocean tide to pour her into
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She likes to string words together like a necklace,
inserting a pretty adjective or two in between.
She likes to grab a pen and write,
and write and write,
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She wants to laugh along,
but she don't know what they're laughing about.
She wants to picture the places they describe,
but she never been there,
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Title from Nightwish's 'Dark Chest of Wonders'

She locks her feelings in a box
And throws the key into the bottom of the ocean
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