High School Politics
She walked pass his locker with a face full of flirt,
wearing red lipstick and a short black mini-skirt-
She seemed to need more than what he could give her,
then laughed at him and gave him the rude cold shoulder.
She gossiped about every girl who she didn’t find hot,
thinking she had the stuff that all the other girls did not-
Her daddy gave her a red Camaro with dice in the mirror,
but deep down inside she really lived in insecure fear.
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He was the quarterback for the state championship team,
walked with arrogance thinking he was every girl’s dream-
Never did his homework but it really never mattered,
always got straight A’s as the woman teachers were flattered.
He constantly fought with the ones he always called geeks,
thinking he was better than them and calling them freaks-
Little did he know he’d get nowhere in life with that disposition,
and those “geeks” would soon become lawyers or musicians.
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High school was so trivial back in nineteen-ninety eight,
popularity and politics became every teen’s fate-
Looking back I don’t regret not being popular or a fighter,
for I have become a wonderful wife, mother and a writer.
April 20, 2017
Copyright © Lu Loo | Year Posted 2017
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