She Had a Tape Recorder

By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 16 May 2000

She Had a Tape Recorder

there was a little girl who felt ugly and invisible she had short tacky hair and blue eyes that cried when they looked at the moon through the station wagon window on a wee hour drive with mommy lookin' for daddy and no one saw her or heard her because she was small and inconsequential so she talked into her tape recorder taught herself how to spell into her tape recorder told stories into her tape recorder sang songs into her tape recorder interviewed bumblebees into her tape recorder made herself real into her tape recorder she had a tape recorder and she used it until the batteries died little did she know that someday she would grow into a tape recorder recording love playing it back fast forward rewind there it is it isn't gone it's still on the tape thank god thank god play it louder buy me batteries stock up on the batteries so that when all the stores are closed we will be prepared

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