those girls
who made that
choice
got
their hair done up
and made their eyes go dark
and then
that darkness
made its way
to their hearts
sure
they studied hard
they play the part
comprise
almost sixty percent of the ones
on the
old path
the one
that people used to want
they
know the precise temperature
of the
average human heart
like
somebody can
or does
like
such a thing could be
like it just was
your
heart gets added to a data set
and that’ll
tell you how you should feel
like the
collectivist pressure
to want
the right things
like we think we’re immune
because of geography
because
of stars
and
bars
a history of
‘rugged individuality’
like
that’s something in the genes
well
the girls might tell you
different
if you
listen to them
breathe
it’s full of sighs
it’s tired
it’s deep
but
brief
