I look just like you.
\nIf I never said, you\u2019d never know.
\nI wear clean clothes,
\nListen to pop music,
\nColor pictures on my cell phone,
\nPrefer Fuji apples to Opal,
\nVoted in the last election,
\nWonder why the Kardashians still have a show.
\nI even attend school;
\nI\u2019m a sophomore.<\/p>\n
I have a mom, No, I\u2019m not transgender, I have a job, you know. I bathe regularly. I smell fine. I eat okay. I probably sit right next to you in College Algebra I\u2019m the bogeywoman I look just like you. If I never said, you\u2019d never know. I wear clean clothes, Listen to pop music, Color pictures on my cell phone, Prefer Fuji apples to Opal, Voted in the last election, Wonder why the Kardashians still have a show. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":697,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/697"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24724,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24081\/revisions\/24724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA car,
\nA 3.2 GPA.
\nI have a name.
\nI don\u2019t have a home.
\nYeah. Gasp, right?
\nBut, but you look so normal!<\/em>
\nI am. I\u2019m normal. A normal, 20-year-old girl.
\nI just don\u2019t have a home.<\/p>\n
\nAnd my daddy didn\u2019t sell me
\nInto sexual slavery.
\nBut damn straight we should
\nCare about those folks
\nAnd help them out!
\nNah, I\u2019m a lot luckier.
\nI mean, yeah, I\u2019m a lesbian, but my
\nMom didn\u2019t care too much.
\nWhen I turned eighteen, child support just stopped
\nAnd social services started docking her checks.
\nShe cried when she asked me to leave.
\nMy older sister took me in for a bit,
\nBut when her boyfriend started beating her up,
\nI just… left.<\/p>\n
\nI use my sister\u2019s address.
\nI wait tables.
\nI buy clothes and make-up at Walmart.
\nSometimes, I save enough for a motel room.
\nOther times, I crash at friends\u2019.
\nOccasionally, I\u2019ll lay the seat down
\nIn my car and snooze.<\/p>\n
\nThe only cardboard sign
\nI\u2019ve ever held
\nAdvertised a middle school car wash.
\nI even dated a sweet girl for a few months.
\nI sneaked into her dorm room a few times,
\nUntil her roommate ratted us out.<\/p>\n
\nOr Psychology.
\nI\u2019m your group partner,
\nYour fry-wielding server,
\nThe person who passes you
\nOn the freeway.<\/p>\n
\nWho keeps so many\u00a0clutching their
\nBlankets and politics
\nAs tightly as possible
\nTo their\u00a0chests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"