Inside the Mind of Shay Chandler

Before you stands Shay Chandler.

Everyone thinks she’s so polite.

She’s the girl you want

To invite to all the parties.

The fun, open, passionate girl

Whom everyone loves.

If only you could see inside her head.

As of today,

She has murdered her Math teacher

Twenty times in a row with

Various weapons like Oversized

Hammers and bats,

Even a pickaxe once.

She has pushed a dozen gossiping girls

Down the stairs

And into lockers.

Hell, she put her school on lockdown

When she shot her boyfriend at lunch

For saying he didn’t like her hairdo.

She knows she’s got to stop,

But she has a problem.

Once she started, she couldn’t stop.

It was like that old Pringles commercial,

Once you pop you just can’t stop.

Well, once she snapped she couldn’t

Help but let her imagination run wild.

Everyday she goes to school,

And she sits there.

She sits in class and wonders

What it would be like

If she could make everything better.

But in her version of “better”

Everyone but her is in the hospital,

Wishing they’d been kinder in a world

That promotes cruelty

As a barbaric yet entertaining necessity.

She knows it’s true.

And she’s only promoting it more

When she slaughters another teacher

And then dances on their grave,

Saying,

It’s your fault you’re dead.

You’ve tortured us long enough.

Only, her version is,

“You’ve tortured me long enough.”

She is sadistic and

She considers herself twisted.

What she doesn’t realize is

It’s only in her head.

She could stop it if she wanted to,

But here’s the rub:

She doesn’t want it to stop.

Here in front of you is Shay Chandler.

She is smart, pretty, and she loves school.

She’s popular and everyone adores her,

Especially her math teacher.

She believes there is a fine line

Between public and private,

And she dares not cross it.

Not that anyone would ever know.

If only they could see inside her head.

+Sarah Lynn --We’re doing a discussion in my English class about the difference between public behavior and private behavior, and I was watching Rachael Ray today, and this just kind of came to me--