Small Town

I’ve got greater ambitions

than these four walls

and the winding roads

of this small town,

where the Mecca of fraternization

is the local chain restaurant.

I’ve got higher hopes

than a beauty school degree

and a sweetheart marriage

to the boy that grabs my hips

like he owns me,

cause he can’t control much else.

I’ve got plans

too vast and extensive

for this three mile radius,

a mind like mine

needs the extent of the earth

to wander.