The Beautiful by Michelle Tea

Author:Michelle Tea
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Manic D Press

WHAT I KNOW

don’t you know?

don’t you know?

when a boy

hits you

it means he

likes you.

and he likes me,

this eight-year-old boy

who took my shoulders

who held them against the wall

and made his tongue crawl

into my mouth

like a bad animal.

and he likes me,

this boy on the bicycle who keeps

hitting me he keeps hitting me

he pedals past with his hand out

to clip my head or he flicks

down his kickstand to make me

run and he likes me

this boy who took a stick

and whacked the curve of my

crotch and the girls all giggled,

yeah, he must really like you and

it would seem like the prettiest girls

could wear their luck like bruises

because don’t you know?

don’t you know?

it means they like you

when they fling small rocks

in your direction

it means they like you

when they tug your hair

to make your neck snap back

when they pinch your arm

to make your skin glow red

it means they like you,

judy blume said so, too,

it’s in her books it’s in

a lot of books it’s in

their eyes as their hands

are reaching out for you,

that look of love, you’ve

seen it in your father’s eyes

as his own hands reached out

for your mother and he likes her,

he even loves her, don’t you know?

they just sometimes

have a hard time

showing it, these boys,

these silly

silly

boys, when

they hit you

it means

they like you.

don’t you know?

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