Curiouser

Voices
It starts when Maggie goes to bed that night

She doesn't dream

Not a single second of the night

She is stuck in darkness

And she only hears voices

Screaming and screaming and screaming

But she is forced to listen

And wait for the night to end

The Bus
Maggie falls asleep on the bus

Though she has no idea how

The road it travels to school is pot-holed and cracked

So the bus jumps up and down, up and down

The whole entire way

The boy sitting next to Maggie is named Peter

He notices that Maggie is out cold

So he takes out a marker and begins to draw

Rainbows on her cheeks

And butterflies on her collarbone

Until the bus lurches to a stop

then Peter shakes Maggie awake

And motions for the others not to say a word

The first thing Maggie hears when she walks into school

Is laughter

Pretty
Maggie isn't exactly pretty

Though her parents pretend she is

They say she has bright eyes

And silky flowing hair

But Maggie is no fool

She sees too big hazel eyes

And frizzy messy hair that is an awful brown colour

She sees a large nose

And thin lips that no boy would want to kiss

She sees a shapeless body

She sees an ugly girl

She sees all this as she stares into the mirror that night

Trying futily to wipe away the marker

And after a while she knows it's useless

And just cries about it

And she knows she's even uglier when she cries