Once There Was A Girl

Who was a very good girl.
But When She was Bad, she was Horrid.

And that girl is here.
In her very big bed
with a cat half as big..
he needs to be on senior food.

And she waits for the day when she won't have to wait
when she arrives and it will already be there.

With her construction paper heart with the doilie flair
and her initials and no one else's. (Gliiter!)
A breath,
A sigh
and a look to the sky that grows lighter
as we pass into spring.
Her 31st year.
Nothing is as she seemed.
and next year again she'll be a bridesmaid.
Oh jesus god. Not that cliche.
But yes...hasn't it always been THAT cliche?
A starving artist sticking it to the man
But no, it turns out that was only a disguise
to hide the longing and the hope and the dream
of something normal.
And now she builds normal out of scraps of what she
thinks
might fit.