Mandeville Girls
Mandeville girls are the brightest and most beautiful.
They are not the best.
Though their intellect is sharp, they are too confused to be really smart.
Though they are remarkably attractive, they are too nervous to make good decorations.
They are good enough to stay alive and keep out of trouble.
Living and avoiding trouble are all you can ask of 1995.
You don't have to be much good for anything this year.
If smart and pretty keeps you alive and out of jail,
you have made a year closer to the new millenium.
It's OK right now to be useless.
Smart and pretty is cool.
Mandeville girls will always find a way.
They like to make it in the lake.
They do it in the Sun by the pool when they get a chance.
They make a quick call when Mom drives to the City.
They walk into the dark woods of a vacant lot pulling their stumbling boyfriends.
They get it on their boats in the daytime.
Late at night they do it quick in a car.
Mandeville girls never get caught having sex.
Mandeville girls smell like hormones.
Please put away your chemistry set.
Yes I think it's great that you can brew up pheremones
and all the other chemicals in your body like other real women.
Just don't go to extremes.
Nothing exceeds like excess.
Mandeville girls contain sugar and spice but it ain't nothing nice.
Mandeville girls worry about not being poor.
Hey, it's not your fault Daddy drives a Beamer.
It's OK when Mom takes the Volvo to make groceries.
Your boat's not really that big.
Anyway you're not rich.
Rich folk don't live in subdivisions.
You can't see their houses from the road,
and they don't have neighbors.
So don't let the family goodies get you down.
You'll get over it.
You can't have your poverty and eat it too.
Mandeville girls sweat the small stuff.
Mandeville girls want to be right on.
They would love to know what the real world is like.
They have been shielded from it.
They haven't been protected from sex.
They haven't been protected from dope.
They haven't been protected from booze.
These are the things parents think may harm a girl.
Curfews and silly parent rules are to keep these things away.
Well it didn't work.
Mandeville girls know a lot about sex and dope and booze.
They just want to learn about life.
Silly parent rules have kept them from contacting reality.
They want to know what people think on the streets.
They want to know the truth about how the working class feels.
They want to know how the hip people talk.
They would sort of like to learn how the world is really doing.
Education is all right except when it leaves out reality.
Mandeville girls want to be cool, but they know
first they have to get hip to what's going down.
Mandeville girls want a dose of self-education.
Mandeville girls are curious about the spirit.
They are not real happy about church.
They want to hear alternatives.
They are nervous about Voodoo,
Revolted by Satanism,
Bored by Buddhism,
and find Hare Krishnas ridiculous.
The New Age people charge too much money just to find out.
Mandeville girls are enchanted with Wicca, the witchcraft people,
but wonder if there aren't too many Lesbians floating around.
Mandeville girls want to go deeper in spirit,
ut they're not sure where to start digging.
Mandeville girls are troubled in spirit.
Mandeville girls are all nuts.
Their emotional instability is just part of their beauty,
churned out by their internal chemical factories,
but they find it inconvenient at times.
In the middle of their complex social lives,
they often trip over their own swirling emotions.
Then they go home and hate themselves a while.
They need to be assured,
Hey, it's OK to be a lunatic.
It's good for your mental health.
If it weren't for people like you,
we wouldn't know the rest of us were sane.
So just chill, little sister.
You know how to get over this.
Mandeville girls need their own private asylum with trees for walls.
Mandeville girls wish something drastic would happen.
Birthdays are such a slow and agonizing path to liberation.
They keep their ears tuned for the traditional words
used by knights in shining armor
on encountering a damsel in distress,
like Come fly with me to the Casbah.
Like Ride on my silver charger into the sunset.
Like Let me take you away from all this.
Like Hey little girl, you want a piece of candy?
Mandeville girls all want to do some traveling.
Mandeville girls have kinky fantasies.
They wonder secretly if they would enjoy bondage.
They suppose humiliation could be delicious.
They think nobody knows their idle daydreams.
They imagine what sex must be like with a girl but they never tell their best friend.
Especially not her.
Mandeville girls have secret feelings.
Mandeville girls are aching for freedom.
Mandeville girls want a place to gather.
Mandeville girls don't like their own future they can see.
Mandeville girls are a unique culture.
They're a trip.
This year I have decided to give them
an A minus in existentialism.
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