Keep your legs from shaking, fill your eyes with new tears. Don't ask questions, you don't know your name. Something for everyone, try to win prizes. Stay young and quiet.
Standing at the punch table swallowing punch. Can't pay attention to the sound of anyone. A little more stupid, a little more scared. Every minute more unprepared.
You're pink, you're young, you're middle class. They say it doesn't matter. Fifteen blue shirts and womanly hands. You're shooting up the ladder. . Your mind is racing like a pro now.
You have to do it running but you do everything that they ask you to. 'Cause you don't mind seeing yourself in a picture. As long as you look faraway, as long as you look removed.