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The Evolution Of Middle Schoolers: A Poem

They're Literally Prettier Than Me

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The Evolution Of Middle Schoolers:  A Poem
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When I was in Middle School way back in ’07, we got nervous spending that many minutes in heaven.

Boys were short, shaggy haired and still looked dweeby. While I thought I was a bad bitch when I said the word “Sleezy.”

I listened to rock bands like “We the Kings”, and was into all sorts of emo things.

Side bangs, and chokers and Etnies’ oh my! And lets be real, we all knew every lyric to “Mr. Brightside”.

J-14 was my Bible, I took everything it said for fact. But by far the best part were the posters in back.

My closet door definitely had Zac Efron fever, yet nothing compared to my life size cut out of Justin Bieber.

Our biggest worry was Team Edward or Team Jacob, and on my face I never wore a stitch of makeup (except for during the emo phase where under eyeliner took over my entire face).

Anyway, continuing….

Braces, Braces, Braces, Braces, which rubber bands should I pick? Maybe ones that match my silly bands would be sick!

I had a code name for the guy I liked, and when he, QFootball_47xx, added me as a buddy I was beyond psyched.

MASH holy crap, that game was everyone’s jam and the website Picnik was essentially our Instagram.

We wore lots of Abercrombie, Holister and Juicy track gear. And we always signed “HAGS” at the end of the year.

But today times have changes, and it’s actually mad weird....

Instead of wearing Abercrombie, girls look like the models, they date boys in high school, and drink out the bottle.

The short shorts are shorter that Miley’s hair. It’s like mini Kylie Jenner’s running around everywhere (who I love by the way).

Some boys are confusing because I think they’re my age, now they give out free condoms when you hit 6th grade!

They tweet, they snap, you know all the things we have; but I’m 20 and still keep a good gel pen around.

They listen to rap, and live life with “no ragrets”, and they definitely do not know how to make this type of “S”.

It just kills me that some how they look better than me, and they’re only four years out of grades two and three.

If this is their awkward stage I’ll actually be a little pissed, because back in middle school I looked like this:

Then my face got less round and my teeth more straight, but my sister’s about to get braces and she’s only eight!

Everything for them, is so ahead of their time, so maybe they’ll have a reverse decline?

So perfect now, then hit their awkward stage later. And no I don’t care if you call me a hater.

Because what-ever-major-loser-get-the-picture-duh, I hope you’re perfect boobs prematurely sag out of that Victoria’s Secret bra.

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