there was a girl in class
who had a perfect punctuality report
but always seemed absent to me
and so i asked,
“when you’re in class,
seated a few seats away from me,
where are you really?”
and her eyes spoke
she was not here on earth
she was on the moon,
drinking up the sight of
stars and suns
she was on a distant planet,
fighting up robots
and fiends trying to destroy earth
she was on the sun,
roasting marshmallows
with all the other pretty alien girls
she was everywhere,
she said
she was everywhere
but here
because here was where
reality took place
and reality was no place
for the wandering kind