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The Replacements

I guess I just expected

Something else

 

It happens every year,

I get excited

Hopeful

Giddy

That maybe

This year will be

Different.

 

Maybe I'll find an awesome friend

Who does my nails

And answers calls at two am

Like Nicole did

Before she moved to California

 

Or she could be like Kayla

Who would be silly with me in

Drama class

And use chocolate sauce for blood

In our Black and White movie

Before her dad died in combat

And she went to bury him in

Some foreign country

Where cell phones

Don't count

 

Or a boyfriend like Louis

That I could see a future with

Sitting listening to Relient K

In a college dorm

With a million years to spare

Before he left for London

 

But the girl in front of me

In English

Pops her gum for the boy

In the next desk

And could poke my eye out

With her fake straightened hair.

 

The girl in my drama class

Cakes on her mask and

Participates in pageant after pageant

And calls her anorexia

A diet

 

And I heard the rumor

That the boy I thought was cute

In chemistry

Was caught ********* his

Girlfriend

Under her desk in

Español Dos.

 

I didn't think my standards were too high to meet.

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Written by
emily-tyler
American
Published
Sep 3, 2014
Lines·Words
49·214
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"Nothing gold can stay."

-Robert Frost

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#first#sad#drama#day#anorexia#bus#school#classmates#firstday
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