New Girl - The Long Winters

American schools called you starlight

in fourteen-point type

10×10 and then

your most brutalful smile

you were looted

you opened wide

gave props to the knives

props to the cheating wives

be kind to the new girl

you erased so many mistakes

by sitting up & smiling

your solo show

i hope it never closes

it was the ride of my life

twice you burned your life’s work

once to start a new life

and once just to start a fire

be kind to the new girl

you are

no, you are

uh, no, you are

no, you are