[ WP ] Your job is to stare at the school 's security feed all day , but after a while you begin to notice budding romances between students . You decide to give these a little push in order to provide entertainment for yourself .

Every day 
 
 she's the same 
 dark skin 
 bright blue shadow 
 pale white and blue 
 sparkle over red cheeks 
 never looking up 
 when girls call 
 for the circus master 
 
 I think she must wake 
 tired, broken 
 she must wake and look 
 practice smiling in the mirror 
 never getting it right 
 paint it on instead 
 call it good 
 
 the boy is thin 
 pal skin stretched 
 out like a drum 
 hair like a nest 
 rats have wandered through 
 he must smell 
 of old socks and dust 
 girls give him 
 a wide berth 
 
 only this girl 
 she watches him 
 her lashes droop 
 onto her cheeks 
 when he stands next 
 to her locker 
 spinning his lock 
 until it pops open 
 
 he leaves her 
 waiting 
 watching the trail 
 of his coat threads 
 past his sneakers 
 
 I think I should leave a note 
 but where would I get 
 red lipstick? 
 my mother does n't wear any 
 my wife does, 
 though she's not mine anymore 
 
 what would I write? 
 a young girl in love 
 must be confusing 
 dizzy, strange 
 
 instead I leave 
 a photograph of a woman 
 black and white 
 her beard dark 
 against the white 
 of her teeth
