I bet you never knew I wrote poetry. I bet you never knew I wrote such bloody awful poetry. In actual fact I wrote this as a song:
Girl
What are you waiting for?
Some kind of sign?
A man maybe, the generous kind?
Your jeans and your hair
they're not your own.
The language that you use,
the way you pose
From someone else you stole.
Girl, Girl, Girl!!!
Could you tell me why?
The mirror you use is pointed at the sky.
You pretend that the stars are your eyes,
and that your lips they shimmer and mesmerise.
Girl, Girl, Girl.
I know you're not a fool!
Discard the lies they taught you at school.
Your people and your life they never knew.
The truth thay could never give to you.
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It's no Austen or Eliot, but they're white and I'm not, so it's okay :)
