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The Girl Who Would Be A Woman

Christopher Hivner

She cast out a net
to catch all the children who laughed
and left her on the beach
in her sandals and shorts.

Brown water burst from the pipe
flooding the five and ten
and they blamed her
even though she hadn’t been invited.

Treasures mounted on a wall
leading to a corner
and she can’t find all the trophies
that she never won.

But how they struggled in the net,
not quite begging though
like she had
before daddy’s hand struck.

Dogs are pests and children should be quiet
and mothers need to sleep and toys are expensive
and daddy will come back and no means no
and shut up means no and stop talking.

They didn’t know where she had gone
because you can’t see princesses
when they order your eyes shut
until the moon reappears.

The net held them all,
the net cut into their skin,
the net made them bleed,
the net was a dream.

The closet stored clothes and shoes,
and memories and corpses
that looked like her
and spoke of eating candy and skipping rope.

The first kiss from a boy
was actually a man
with his hands in her panties
and she cried until the serpents crawled home.

The net was cast
and caught them all.
She left them to rot in the hot sun,
she left them to rot from the inside out.

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