Coquettish

By Kaitlyn Grissom

“I wonder if you realize”, said the teacher to the

curly-haired coquette

Who rattled, chattered, flirted, without really saying

anything, “I bet

You hadn’t even noticed that with all your talk of

flippant sex and boys,

You’ve so far accomplished nothing, save to ruin perfect

silence with your noise.”

“I know you will forget me, but before you try to

gossip me away,

Retain this one thing only, though you may remember

nothing else today:

When all your words are emptied, when your final loud and

careless laugh is dead,

I wonder if you’ll cry to see the inside of your

empty little head.”