Photo credit Michal Marcol, Freedigitalphotos.net
Originally posted January 27, 2012
One of Those Girls
(written 8/1/2009)
I am afraid
Afraid of losing you
To the Pretty Young Things
With straight blond hair
Slender white thighs
Girls eating ice cream
And playing volleyball
Paragons of petite perfection
In their pink sunglasses
Fierce acrylics
And cherry red lipstick
(Canine teeth flashing)
I am not One of Those Girls
No, I have loved too much
My heart, a menagerie
Of shattered glass
My unicorn horn
Super-glued back on
One too many times
And yet…somehow…
Your perfect hands
Continue to collect
My 1001 colors
Like shells in the sand
That doesn’t mean
I am not afraid
Afraid of losing you
To the Pretty Young Things
With straight blonde hair
And slender white thighs
Teasing lollipops
With their tongues
Playing volleyball
In the sun
Blissfully ignorant
To their ephemeral beauty