It's Not Easy Being Goth Poem by Cherie Mort

I don't have any money
I spent it all buying trinkets from China
For cheap, I might add
So I bought a lot of stuff
Did I need it? Not really
Well, sort of
I do have to add to my wardrobe of black-on-black
Maybe just a little bit of color, too

Okay, fine, my closet looks like a rainbow puked in it
What can I say? it's hard being goth
My mom has an anti-goth campaign against me,
My pale foundation is too pale and I know it,
I try to be allergic to sunlight but it's EVERYWHERE
And my black cat is very finicky
We never know what she wants
I don't even know what I want

I want to be goth, but not occult
Why do people assume the two go hand in hand?
There's plenty of goths like me who aren't like that
Not at all

Am I the only goth in the city?
Sometimes it feels like that
I've only seen goths at the mall, I think

The nearest Hot Topic is literally a few towns away
I can't just hop on a bus and go on a shopping spree
I'm broke, remember?