2019

None of the guys
ever asked me out
they teased me
or just froze me out

I wasn’t stuck up
I was shy
I’d just come from China
that is why

I didn’t know the styles and trends
or even where I should begin
there wasn’t much that I could say
I never talked much anyway..

so I sat there
and read

I was an incredibly
epic fail

To all the guys
who called me names
that tagged my locker
and tried to shame me

I wasn’t snooty
I was shy
I’d just come from China
that’s the why

I didn’t know the styles and trends
that let a new girl fit in
I’d never even used the Internet
I was as lost-in sauce as a girl gets..

so I sat there
and read

Which eventually
got me into Yale.
.
.
Songs for this:
Conversation by X-Cetra
Simply Couldn't Care by Tracey Thorn
Human Behaviour by Björk
.
.
*A poem from 9th grade (2019)
** We’d moved back stateside from China so I could have a ‘normal’ high school.
*** I just added the last two lines

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Vincine Fallica

September 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM

. Pix SO comfortable! Eiffel in the window no less. Even wish I was there! . Then, poem and . HEARTBREAK! . Oww! . No heart for this one. A tear instead. :-(

Anais Vionet

September 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM

that couch is so comfortable that I can’t study on it most of the time because I get drowsy - not that I’m heavy into study yet - we’re still in the orientations period which lasts 5 more days. We measured it once, from the tower to our back balcony, when I was little, and I think it’s 143 meters (479 feet). I found a trove of papers and scraps of paper with old poems on them from the summer before I started high school. I may have been a better writer then. =]