She
By John Cooper

She is a teenager
She’s almost reached sixteen
She wants to be just like the stars
She sees in magazines
She has started smoking
She breaks all the rules
She’s been playing truant
She hates to go to school
She has failed to do her homework
She’s kept behind again
She disrespects her teachers
She drives them all insane
She wears too much eye makeup
She wears a low cut top
She’s sending out a message
She makes a boys jaw drop
She is asking for a handbag
She says she’s seen the one
She says it costs two hundred pounds
She says it’s by Luis Vuiton
She’s turned seventeen
She’s drinking alcohol
She says it’s really cool
She still plays with a doll
She is late again for college
She failed her last exam
She says she’ll be successful
She says she’ll never push a pram
She has just one ambition
She says it’s to be rich
She says she’ll stop at nothing
She says she’ll be a bitch
She has a reputation
She’s popular with men
She is taken to hotels
She says again, again, again
She comes home in the early hours
She won’t tell Dad where she’s been
She’s every father’s nightmare
She’s every young man’s dream
She has reached the age of eighteen
She makes young men go dumb
She is now in womanhood
She still sucks her thumb
She has now quit college
She won’t find a job
She can’t accept her mother says that
She’s become a slob
She wants to be a model
She is happy to undress
She wants to become famous
She wants her picture in the press
She likes to go to nightclubs
She likes men to buy her pink champagne
She goes into the toilet
She snorts lines of cocaine
She doesn’t listen to her father
She is making his hair greyer
She tells him when she’s married
She says it’s to a football player
She’s asking for a new dress
She wants to stand out from the crowd
She wants breast enlargements
She does not make her parents proud
She just had her nineteenth birthday
She didn’t get the car
She has not found a job yet
She’s not become a star
She was kicked out of her parent’s house
She has met a chav
She is not content
She says with anything I have
She was cautioned by the police
She was caught shoplifting again
She did not see the signs
She says life’s gone down the drain
She went home with her boyfriend
She’s pregnant he announced
She can’t bring the baby up
She says on jobseekers allowance
She begged for help and guidance
She was lucky mum agreed
She said I will grow up one day
She said I’m still hooked on weed
She is no longer a teenager
She says her ex was just a cheat
She found him screwing with another girl
She lives just down the street
She gave birth to the baby
She says she’s happy but she lies
She pulls her duvet over
She can’t hear her baby’s cries
She says she wishes things were different
She knows the past can’t be undone
She is living on her own
She says they took away her son
She still dreams of being famous
She says she’ll still be rich one day
She says just you wait and see and then
She turns and walks away