Greg Easley Poet I do not know?

She's Young

she borrowed her smile from the parkway
her sense of self from the stage
and claims to be in rebellion
against a charmless age

she jacked her mother’s van and then vanished
and drove up to Maine on her own
forked about three thousand in bad checks
before returning home

we must not hold this against her
she’s young
she’ll work it out in her own way
she’s young

I heard her new boyfriend is thirty
and did time for possessing cocaine
but she made this sweetheart a scrapbook
and brings him to church, all the same

we must not hold this against her
she’s young
her old man all but lives at the bars
she’s young

her friends dyed her hair neon-purple
and cut it up to her chin
she took one look and was bawling
so they dyed it back to dark brown again

we must not hold this against her
she’s young

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