(read this in your head as a whisper-r-r-r-r)
AHHHHHHHHH… hair, hair, hair, hair, mine?
snip, snip, snip who, WHAT, where???
like spiderwebs cut, cut, cut---butchered! WHATTTTT! no, no!
slit, slit, slit---? up a skirt
where?? intangible
gold up my fish--- in the river! Noooooooooooo
don’t goooo-o-o
up there?
up my Alley?y?y? it’s STILL THERE-E-E!
Catfish
Jelly---Fish, still waiting for someone to pull its tentacles down the ditch.
JIMINY!! the cricket… t, t, t MAMAAA, JUST KILLED A WO-MAN
but when? i wish upon a star
𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅘𝅥𝅮 one that was just a girl the moon?
is now my star-are-are
You no longer there/ mars? i no longer trust you
Nowhere near/ i trust the sun---no more but YES… it burns skin
No longer listening? IDC!! I LOVE IT
but… i’d still’d like you to listen… to pay attention… $$$ even if i’m grown… even if i’m not the same as i was
as i will be as i was as a kid
even if orchids die of dilapidation even if we start to live beneath the water
beneath soil
Itzel is a Senior at Ruth Asawa School of the arts. She is an aspiring journalist. She loves to read, take walks, and drink tea!