various poets Poems

Song of the Prettybird:

I've lived 20 prettybird years
Of this great big prettybird life
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The only girl in a handful of backseat boys,
I sit shotgun without calling it. The song pounding through the radio says Bitch every Bitch other Bitch word.

One boy assures me I am not like other girls.
...

I want to stand up, but if I do,
whose coffee table silence
will these boys rest their feet on?
I want to stand up, but if I do,
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When I first learned that no one could ever love me more than me
a world of happiness previously unseen was discovered
because somewhere along the line of aging and scrutiny and time
I was taught to despise myself
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pretty little baby
breaks the surface of a big blue pool
water cascading down her white swimming suit
in tiny torrents of sunlight dew
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For as long as i can remember
in order to feel better about myself
i needed a boy to notice me
to give me that second glance
...