teenagers are constantly breaking
underneath the strain of potato chips
and fake ***
plastic johns lining the house party outside.
All there is to do is drink
sparkling grape juice and wake up
sticky-eyed from nightmare tears.
Ah, another day
trapped like bears in a little zoo
and fighting with sharpened fingernails;
with animal growls.
Another one bites a strawberry
to make their mouth drip blood red.
It’s paradise in our happy school
And there’s nobody here.
I got up to sharpen my pencil and saw
the silent desks,
empty toilet stalls.
There’s no one to talk to
in this lonesome hell.
Mar 18, 2015
Mar 18, 2015 at 12:26 AM UTC
teenagers are constantly breaking
underneath the strain of potato chips
and fake ***
plastic johns lining the house party outside.
All there is to do is drink
sparkling grape juice and wake up
sticky-eyed from nightmare tears.
Ah, another day
trapped like bears in a little zoo
and fighting with sharpened fingernails;
with animal growls.
Another one bites a strawberry
to make their mouth drip blood red.
It’s paradise in our happy school
And there’s nobody here.
I got up to sharpen my pencil and saw
the silent desks,
empty toilet stalls.
There’s no one to talk to
in this lonesome hell.
Glad I'm not in high school anymore.
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