Summer Revelation

Someone thought it would be a good idea

To have my cousin Mina stay for the summer

Perfect, beautiful Mina

Full of charm and allure

An angel in my parent’s eyes

A witch in my own

She turned my friends against me

Stole my parents from me

Got my crush’s attention

Whenever we go out to hang

I’m always in the back, forgotten

It’s okay

I tell my reflection in the bathroom of the movie theater

After they ditched me

Because you’re cool

You’re too cool for fakers like them

I strike a pose

Look how cool I am!

It’s no wonder I attracted such flies for friends

They are so dead to me

All of them, every last one!

Anyone who can’t resist Mina’s charm

Isn’t true

And when she left

The spell broke

And they all came back to me

Like flies drawn to shit

The prodigal son

And karma

And you know what I did?

I held up my hand to their faces

And told them that I wasn’t here

They’d have to leave a message after the (finger)beep