Poetry about People at Linn Benton

I’m not a poet, first of all. I actually sort of mock poetry (unless it’s by Dr. Seuss or Edward Lear), so sorry to all you poetry lovers/writers.

Except recently I’ve been writing poetry about people at Linn Benton, just for the fun of it. People who I don’t really know, but see around.

I’m adding this disclaimer because I often find poetry to be really pretentious, and I want to point out that this is completely in fun and I’m not actually trying to write “good poetry.”

Okay. Here goes.

Mermaid Hair

there is one girl
I see around LBCC
who’s more “different” than me

she has mermaid hair

and when she walks by me,
I always stare at the dresses she wears

that are weirder than mine

full of taffeta bows in an 80’s design
with a blue-greenish shine

and sometimes I wonder how it would be
to decide
on my own
that I’d like to be known
as the “different-ist” person at LBCC