Page 16 of The Black Flamingo

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Callum says, “You’re so lucky!”

These girls are my friends.

I do feel lucky.

“When is Trevor coming back?”

I eventually stop asking Mum.

She takes me

to my singing lessons now.

Trevor returns

in his stupid silver car,

demanding

to see Anna.

But he never asks to see me.

The night I realize

Trevor isn’t coming back,

I have the dream

in which Mum is killed

when a Boeing 747

crashes into our house.

The left wing cuts through her

bedroom window but Anna and I survive.

Would Trevor take Anna

but leave me an orphan?

Anna gets Phoebe, my old Barbie doll,

and my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Anna gets my overalls

and all my other old clothes, too.

I notice when Anna plays

with my Turtles, no one asks her why.

I notice when Anna wears

my overalls, no one comments.

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