gwen_stefani raze mrs. howell's grade eight class. i don't know who brought "tragic kingdom" with them to school, or why they're allowed to play it, or where the cd player came from. this is the first time most of us have heard "spiderwebs". barb says, "now this i like." and she doesn't like anything. watching the music video for "simple kind of life" in the basement of a house i'll dream of almost every night i'm alive. hearing my sister say, "she's pretty." she is. isn't she? shawn playing a remix of "what you waiting for?" on friday nights. delirium gives way to despair. few things that climb so high have sounded this sad to me. she's on my tv screen in a hotel room. the only face that seems to see me when i can't sleep through the noise on the other side of this wall. i try lying on the floor with cotton balls in my ears. my head in the bathroom. it does me no good. she's still there when i drag myself back to bed. waiting. 240906 what's it to you? who go blather from