She dropped out today.
Out of school, village housing, and our lives
and Mickey Mouse sat
on the edge of his bed,
a controller in his gloved hands.
They are swollen under there,
a gangrenous trap of envy and greed
and she saw those hands with the gloves off,
and as they slid down her face
I heard funeral bells from across campus
because she's gone now and there are too any girls like her
girls the school refused to help
because god forbid they help
if the rape rate on campus might go up
and Don't call it is what it is, Christine
There's nothing to be done, Kara
Just take it easy, he was just playing around
and we don't know what intentions she had with him anyway
Well it's good for them.
They don't have to deal with it anymore.
She dropped out today.
Out of school, village housing,
the side of the world, the cracks of the law,
the sound of clapping hands, grinning faces,
the coffee house music hour, the soaked sheets at the edges of time
and out of our lives