Definitions
Sophia is a cheerleader, but
not only a cheerleader since
she is also a dancer, and a
singer in the choir, and an
actress from time to time.
And on Sundays, she is an
artist. And on weekdays,
she is a student, but not just
a student, a particular kind
of student, an honors student
full of projects and heavy books.
And now that she is eleven,
she is a friend within a shifting
group of friends, so she can
be one person's best friend or
five peoples' best friend, and
also her clothes have hidden
meanings that she has decoded,
and which are subject to change,
as is her opinion of me, it
seems, especially in the evenings,
when she is a queen, and I must
observe a list of unwritten
protocols that also shift, so there
is no point in a person writing
them down, and sometimes
she decides she's a failure, and
sometimes she decides she's
the best. All of these definitions
to wear like costumes and to
carry like crosses, to connect
like dots and be lost in like maps.
But I see her there. She's there.
She's Sophia and she is there.
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