bad poetry typed with the unbroken wrist on the spur of the moment.
Don't talk like that to me, miss-
Who do you think you are, barging in that way?
Just walking into here like this,
and making awful predictions about someday.
I've got a lot of life in me,
I'm going to be on a pro basketball team
after getting my college degree
from the winning university of my dream.
What do you mean it's all going to change
that my dream will die in two years?
It's going to be a little too strange-
no more basketball training and blood, sweat, and tears.
Just walking down academy lane
battling the deans and their ideals?
Are you insane?
You're telling me I'm gonna walk around in heels?
I'm going to get accused of solicitation?
I hate men, didn't I tell you?
And I'm supposedly going to try to save the nation-
am I going to die in the process too?
What you're saying is completely wrong-
get out of this house right now.
There's no way that I'm going to get along
without basketball in my life, I don't know how.
The only interviews that I'm gonna do
are the ones after I score a winning shot
and the solicitation thing is completely untrue
I'd never do anything so stupid and risk getting caught.
I'm never going to prance on the stage
and sing a silly song from some stupid play
my performances won't 'engage'
and I'm not gonna be on Broadway someday.
I'd never fall in love with the wrong man,
especially a homosexual one,
I can tell who is and isn't, I can!
Don't laugh at me, I'm not done.
I'm gonna be out on that court forever
a sweaty tomboy just doing the thing I love
basketball is one thing that I'll never
quit- it's just a goal that I won't fall short of.
I'll never get in trouble that way
and I'm never gonna involve myself in that voting stuff
I'm just too much of a good girl, and anyway,
that kind of world seems too rough.
I'm not going to be what you said
I don't believe you at all.
I'm not gonna try to 'lure some man into my bed'
and some stupid sickness ain't gonna make me fall.
Get out of here
I don't want to hear from you, not one more word.
So you're eighteen?
And you say that you're me?
Well, I'm only thirteen
and I think that we can agree
That I'll never be like you
that our lives will not be the same
and I can add to that too-
I'm not gonna be some
country-music loving
pink sugary
talk-backing
slightly risque
government loving
independent
life-without-basketball girl
with some other claim to fame.
Who do you think you are, barging in that way?
Just walking into here like this,
and making awful predictions about someday.
I've got a lot of life in me,
I'm going to be on a pro basketball team
after getting my college degree
from the winning university of my dream.
What do you mean it's all going to change
that my dream will die in two years?
It's going to be a little too strange-
no more basketball training and blood, sweat, and tears.
Just walking down academy lane
battling the deans and their ideals?
Are you insane?
You're telling me I'm gonna walk around in heels?
I'm going to get accused of solicitation?
I hate men, didn't I tell you?
And I'm supposedly going to try to save the nation-
am I going to die in the process too?
What you're saying is completely wrong-
get out of this house right now.
There's no way that I'm going to get along
without basketball in my life, I don't know how.
The only interviews that I'm gonna do
are the ones after I score a winning shot
and the solicitation thing is completely untrue
I'd never do anything so stupid and risk getting caught.
I'm never going to prance on the stage
and sing a silly song from some stupid play
my performances won't 'engage'
and I'm not gonna be on Broadway someday.
I'd never fall in love with the wrong man,
especially a homosexual one,
I can tell who is and isn't, I can!
Don't laugh at me, I'm not done.
I'm gonna be out on that court forever
a sweaty tomboy just doing the thing I love
basketball is one thing that I'll never
quit- it's just a goal that I won't fall short of.
I'll never get in trouble that way
and I'm never gonna involve myself in that voting stuff
I'm just too much of a good girl, and anyway,
that kind of world seems too rough.
I'm not going to be what you said
I don't believe you at all.
I'm not gonna try to 'lure some man into my bed'
and some stupid sickness ain't gonna make me fall.
Get out of here
I don't want to hear from you, not one more word.
So you're eighteen?
And you say that you're me?
Well, I'm only thirteen
and I think that we can agree
That I'll never be like you
that our lives will not be the same
and I can add to that too-
I'm not gonna be some
country-music loving
pink sugary
talk-backing
slightly risque
government loving
independent
life-without-basketball girl
with some other claim to fame.