Crazy Girl

Pretty little psychotic girl
in that pink dress of hers
that clings to her body
in the same way
that a death shroud
clings to its corpse.
So neat, meticulous, orderly
that girl is,
all her stuffed animals
lined up in a pretty little row,
from the smallest teddy bear
to the biggest lion.
Pretty little psychotic girl
in her bathroom
lying on the cold linoleum floor,
the bottle that contained the 40
pills she swallowed,
has rolled underneath the commode.
Such a pretty little girl,
they'd say
when they'd find her body
crumpled in a fetal position,
with her face and hands
covered with the tears
she cried while she was alive.
She was so pretty
in her clingy pink dress
and her neat, meticulous ways.
Who would ever know,
that beneath the wonderful outside
of this pretty little psychotic girl
was a soul
shot to hell?