Maybe Wren doesn’t need to leave to find out who she
is. Maybe she already exists in herself like the fat cat who sleeps in the sun
with a face that looks exactly like Audrey Hepburn’s. Maybe her pale eyes
and pouty lips are coming together with her baby doll cheeks. Maybe her boots
and her green stockings and her purple dog collar and chunky funky rings are
breathing along with her, welcoming her as she becomes herself. As she changes
from the fat cheeked bony little girl who dreaded questions about herself and
slinked into the shadows of her curvy laughing squinty eyed friend. But Wren is
by herself now. Nobody to slink along beside. And besides when she wears her
witch boots she’s too tall to hide behind anyone anymore. But that is all very well because she
doesn’t want to hide anymore. She wants to bloom into a weird looking
flower that nobody has ever seen before. And she wants some people to shrink
back in fear or disgust. And she wants others to lean forward to smell her
lavender green tea scent and touch her vintage velvet petals. But she also
wants to drag a tail of barbed wire along behind her so that the peppery
pig-nosed bare clone girls will step on it and the barbs will cut into their
scaly feet. And she wants painful shrieks to stream from their globby glossed
lips. And she will cackle a sharp-toothed giggle and dance away in her witch
boots. Though she never really likes to dance. She would rather jump and push
and shove in a pile underneath her number one punky funky rock gods. So she
clomps along understanding herself more with every step on the cold cracked
grinning sidewalk peering at her as she walks. So Wren walks.