Pretty Flowers

birds sing, the wind blows,

a baby Valentine fly's over

a rainbow and winks at me

on his way to the pot of gold on the other side

but when she walks away,

the sun dims, darkness consumes all,

a vampire appears out of think air

and consumes the rainbow in one gulp,

lightning strikes the baby, who

stumbles to the floor like a falling leaf

and winter snow pellets strike the ground

and I'm blinded for a little while.

When I tried to talk to her,

my breath popped out of my tongue,

I shook in horror,

my eyes watered,

but then I saw her smile

and out of thin air,

a black jacket covered me

and I had sunglasses and

smooth-combed black hair

and I said.... but she was gone by then

and the jacket, glasses and hair, reverted,

my hair was red, popped up like it had

suffered a static shock,

I wore thirty-count lenses on both eyes

and a checkered brown and red shirt

from Target

and I was blinded for a little while.

Thus, I remembered what happened

at last, in our culminating meeting,

She walked along the hall

and the air stood still,

Her pink pumps stomped the floor

with a loud click-clack in slow-motion

the sun broke through the school

and made her blonde hair shine

and glitter fell from the ceiling like magic

as her lips seemed to be wrestling

with a pink lipstick, smeared

brightly on both sides to the tips

in her short white skirt which exposed tanned legs

that's when she saw me!

and when she saw the flower in my hands,

a rain cloud flew over me, while the sun

still shone on her, and she looked at me with pity

with her pretty green eyes

and shoved me onto a hallway

full of thorns on the floor

and a buzzing of bees

surrounded my face

while the rain hid my tears,

and she walked away

among her sun,

where everything's always

shiny and clean

and I was blinded no more

by that conceited white bitch.