Heavy Teenager

nursery rhymes
on New York Times,
“peel all the limes
don’t skip some sometimes.”
give a poor girl 2 dimes
her body becomes a bank of crimes.
hormones or enzymes,
what’s your excuse, paradigms?
young is filth and grimes
make saner climes
for a youngster as she climbs
to a bell that chimes
for other girls that
got pregnant
in the primes.

Younglan Talyoung