Little Miss No Name

Graphic, includes themes around bullying, poverty, grotesque imagery.

Little Miss No Name

Little Miss No Name,
ivory candle-wax skin,
hog-snouted nose,
chestnut curls a tumbleweed.

Pebble-brown eyes,
joints bent like candy canes,
glasses fogging her baby-crook face,
tattered frock crumbling in time.

The playground taunts her:
no friends at recess,
monkey bars laughing at the ogre,
hopscotch alien, jumping alone.

The carousel seizes her:
with candy-apple rotten teeth,
a rusty colossus of seahorses
thrashing up and down madly,
cornet trumpets blaring
her white-bread neglect.

The sandbox reeks of urine,
maples hiss with mansion-mockery,
penny-pincher clown gloves
mauling her bony throat —
“Liar,” they jeer,
her whammy gone hoarse.

Little Miss No Name,
ragdoll heir to motel-sinner needle,
yarn stitching the corpse mouth shut,
button eyes pricking
the poor—

Ugly pebble-saint.

Everyone knows

Little Miss No Name.