Bubble Gum Baby

Alex Garner, Contributor

Sweet girl, baby girl

Tries and tries and tries

To smile for the cameras

and keep them on her good side

 

Big dreamer, eye-pleaser

Reaches, reaches, reaches

For that stardom, for that light

 

That every girl will kill for,

Regardless of their life

 

Pretty girl, young girl

Fights to get it all,

Pushes and pulls

But still she’s too small

 

She gives herself away

For the stardom, for the fame

Everything she is,

Nothing now remains

 

Gorgeous girl, obsessed girl

Pleads and pleads and pleads

Love me, see me,

want me

 

Her light is flickering

 

Puckers, purses

Blows kisses to the camera

POP!

There goes that smile

That smile that everybody loves

 

Changes her face,

Her nose, her lips

All for that camera

POP!

There goes her grip

 

Twists and contorts

To get that perfect picture

Perfect, perfect, perfect

POP!

Now about to slip

 

On the edge, she sits

That light gone from her eyes

Beautiful girl, sad girl

Never wanted this life

 

People said she was pretty

Everything was a lie

POP! POP!

There she goes

 

Bye bye pretty girl,

Go smile for a different show