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There’s a girl who hums in the library.
I don’t know her name,
or her grade,
or anything about her.
But she hums in the library.
I can see her now
long tan limbs, short braided hair, grey backpack.
chipped painted nails flying over the spines
of Fiction M-O,
next to the painting the Art Club made
of a dragon.
Head bopping to the music they play before school.
It doesn’t matter what the song is-
Beatles, country, heavy metal
she knows the words and tune better than anyone.
She’ll be gone in the fall, most likely.
Up to the next school with her
books and her music.
Wish I had known her,
but on the first day of school-3rd September-
I’m walking in with my new books
and in the few minutes between bells
I’m going to hum.
Care to join me?