learn faster Somewhere buried in all the headlines a lovely girl with curly hair who really desperately wanted things to be better for everyone wrote that there was no justice in the world and killed herself And another lovely girl with curly hair is writing letters to her mama from prison because she defends human rights and that is so terrifying to the government they didn't wait for her to break any repressive laws, they just grabbed her off the street and locked her away I learn things too slowly Twelve years to realize no one will sound or feel better than him. Twenty eight years to drive. Six years to tell the other one we are never getting married. Nine years to throw out the box of mawkishness. Twenty one years to even consider examining religion. Seven years to figure out how I feel about sex. I took so much time to act on things I already knew They're so young And clear And not your faction not your flag They are smiley and silly and truer than all that And they're very loved It's not fair |