One of

A Poem by Jessica Elaine Stevens [Faiteach]

Being one of the boys brings you parallel, but never perpendicular to their hearts.

i wish you wanted
the girl with the cut-up knees
the girl with the dirty feet
the girl in the smelly tee
- i wish you wanted me
i kidnapped your phone in the dark
made you chase me for it
your little box of secrets
but i respect such sacred privacy
i wouldn't want to know the things
that i suspect will hurt me
maybe in another place
you would follow me home
but you're tied up on the porch
of some mysterious queen
some hum-drum B***h i will never see
i'll sit with you in the afternoons
when you wander into my lawn
and keep you company
until the B***h comes home
i do not own you.
i am not jealous, i promise.
i think you're better off.
a wandering wretch, i could never give you a home-
if you'd like to trail behind my shopping cart
full of collected miscellanea
i will not begrudge such company.

and i wish someone wanted the girl
with the cut up knees
the girl with the dirty feet
the girl in the smelly tee...