Literature
Slytherin girl
There are snakes entwined with my childhood, threaded through
memories of a girl scrawling monsters onto the edges of her homework, saying
someday I'm gonna be famous.
or, yet
in a child staring starry-eyed at her idols, swearing
someday,
someday I'm gonna be there.
There were, perhaps, seeds of greatness to be found in
the kid who always took the 'wrong' side
rooted for the wrong character,
held an unpopular opinion.
Because ambition is wrong
although none of those stories ever quite explained why
and I wondered if that was all ambition was, if the hand held to the fire only got your fingers burned and there was only a slippery s