The other girls all float around with their eyes painted like cats, Rounded with black and flicked up at the end, but she Swims with her eyes painted like fish One little flick down One little flick up at the End and The other girls whisper about her Saying
She is so weird She is so weird she is so weird
because She has watercolor lips In pretty shades of pink Not sharp And Red Like the other girls She is not a collection of edges and shadows, she is Soft and
She is so weird She is so weird She is so weird
She looks dreamy And sometimes Confused The other guys whisper that There is Not much there In her head And that
she is So weird She is so weird She is so weird
She has three black lines embedded in the Side of the skin on her neck Stacked like deep Vs lined under Each other and once I asked her If they were birds in flight Or gills And she laughed It wasn’t cruel She pulled me close And whispered both With a smirk And then she smiled wide And shook her head and told me That
I Am so weird I am so weird I am So weird
And though I knew it was an insult When the cats whispered it It wasn’t one when it came from the fish