Flower Girl
1.
She had wanted to be one
had always been one
girl with the yellow chin
girl who’d swooshed the buttercup
You must like butter you must crocus tulip forsythia
on the teacher’s desk inching out googolplex subset
lily of the valley fistful
for the hell of it for the smell of it
and dandelions too their
monstrous taproots defying
the spade though mother insisted
she’d won that weedy war
2.
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