This is the story of a girl
Let's say her name was Mary
She grew the fastest of us all
The boys called her Hairy Mary.
Her face was full of mean bumps
Her lips weren’t red like cherry
“Fat”,“Ugly” and “Ew” and “Dark”
Had become her only vocabulary.
She wept and wept, cursing her plight
“Ma, why must I look so scary?”
Wiping her tears, Ma consoled
“Darling, I promise it’s only temporary.”
So she prayed earnestly every night
To her beautiful Godmother Fairy
“Make me like the other girls,
Give me skin as white as dairy.”
Finally one morning, it came to her
Let’s call it an epiphany
She looked at herself in the mirror
And suddenly she wasn’t sorry.
She wore leather boots on a rainy day
She felt like a Revolutionary
She wore her anomalies like a proud badge
Because unlike them all, Mary was extraordinary.
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