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Perceptions!verse - Spander Files

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Stupid boy.<br />

Stand up, dust down, don’t cry, don’t speak.<br />

Don’t exist.<br />

I hide, not wanting to be noticed, not wanting to be seen,<br />

because seeing leads to questions and questions lead to<br />

answers which float unnoticed above heads and<br />

clipboards and endless questionnaires. Why expend the<br />

effort if effort leads to red pens and report cards and<br />

ducking down back corridors and being late to class<br />

again.<br />

Stupid, useless, pull your socks up boy.<br />

Then out of the blue there’s Willow eyes,<br />

Wanting to help, needing to correct and mend and tick<br />

the boxes of reassurance and normality. She lays the<br />

foundations for a future of egocentric altruism and hey<br />

maybe I do listen to Giles sometimes, but I have to follow<br />

the hints and the clues and the nudges because of course<br />

I wouldn’t work it out any other way.<br />

Why does she think I’m stupid; have I given her so much

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