What could be more embarrassing than this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmJZJg6jEuQ

names that never matter

The most beautiful boy you've ever seen might call you baby kitty

Your dad calls you squeedlebug
the neighbor boy calls you Onna
and that man who met you at Chevron still thinks your name is Sarah

Names can be cover ups
safety nets, sweetness, softness, blankets, curtains

Cherry is the girl for a real broken boy

and mama says you are her indigo princess and she always knew what she'd name you

you are gonna get called a friend
and a love
 a pal, a cousin, a girlfriend, a wife, an aunt, a grandma, a doctor, a brat

but all you are is your real name
the one your mama called you long before your heart went splat

So Arionna, Cherry-Pie, Miss Meridian,

Everybody: Don't you let anybody make you feel inferior for who you are.
Dont you hide

I won't love you any less.

Hearts

I'm the queen of kindness
of beauty
 of feathers

I'm the love of softness
of promises
forevers

The Cadillac that brings me to school and the sadness that takes me home
I dream of dish-water haired princes, waiting for me by my throne

A heart so intricate
with spider webbed stick

I wish to warm and imply my nursey ways
As dull toothed little cherubs entice me with the day

a heart of water
a heart of milk
a heart of smiles
of nymph-toed guilt

Blue Softness

My desert dream
Blue fifties king
Cold and hardened cash
Latchkey kids
and skeptiscism
All the things that do entwine
Softness and sweetness
And messes to clean
Feathers in gifts
 and bleach in my tub
Kisses my head. I love you, bub.