Don't Remember Me

Some folks like to be remembered.  Don't remember me.

I am not a model for little children to be.

Watch out for loners and guys with two first names.

They tend to lose their identities.  They have nothing

to lose.  They have nothing to gain, although many have

movies made about them.

They'll never write a movie about me.  My life is lame.

1977

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Stephanie blue eyes and wavy hair

looked straight ahead

stiff from medication

Stephanie roused the deadened air

with a beautiful song she sang in French

Stephanie fat and swollen in her calves

a young girl with dreams

unspoken

Stephanie stared and stared

and stared in silence unbroken

Stephanie sat in group unfurled

spoke of her father and a secret

desire

Stephanie brilliant, warped

poor girl with a brain on fire

1982