You are getting nosebleeds at all the wrong times the tears welling up behind your eyes to track down your pale, pockmarked cheek and that bulging in your throat constricting the airflow let’s you know that fast can be too fast you thrive with the sunlight but like flowers standing tall against the oncoming winter you wilt with day’s last breath what time did you get home this morning? hair all matted and stood up smelling like a sorority party massacre glitter, wine, tequila, coke, and anonymous **** take another adderall ******* for the bored children feel the electrical signals pulse from your brain to snap your pupils to attention wash the ***** out of your hair sweet heart the boys back home never talked to you the way these city boys do “girl, *****, chick, ****, ***** -” “oh her? yeah she’s a sure **** her legs are like seven eleven they’re not always doing business, but they’re always open…” So forget the night ever happened each day brings new opportunities but they all want you they all want one thing from you and you don’t want to say no don’t want to make them mad, be a tease, a *****, frigid and you like the way they make you feel special and beautiful until the next morning with the nosebleeds and the dry heaving in strange toilets and you are waiting for Prince Charming, huh? as if he will jump out of cheesy romcoms and magazines to hold you steady well Prince charming is dead weight slowly spinning beneath a frayed, twisted rope in a dark closet next to the nameless stranger and the noble outlaw so go ahead and smash those mirrors sweetheart what’s seven years more bad luck?