Some Cat from Japan
Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie
Ziggy played guitar, jammin' good with Weird and Gilly,
The spiders from Mars, he played it left hand
But made it too far
Became the special man, then we were Ziggy's band
Ziggy really sang, screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan, he could lick 'em by smiling
He could leave 'em to hang
Came on so loaded man, well hung and snow white tan
Darcy is ten when she realizes that she is not like everyone else.
She is sitting with all the girls in Mrs. Myers' fifth grade class, watching the obligatory film about human sexuality. The other girls in the room are making faint disgusted noises at the cheesy animation of a penis entering a vagina. And she realizes: I'm not like anyone else in this room.
It is not just the fact that she had already seen this film before Christmas, in Mr. Hennessey's fifth grade classroom. At her last school (or was that the school before that one? She forgets sometimes.)
It's not just that she seems to be the only one who doesn't rock designer clothes…
It's not just that she seems to be the only one who doesn't know who her father is…
So, she makes a list (because that is what she does.)
1. She is not surprised or grossed out by anything in the hokey little film (she's already seen it in living Technicolor – the girls think this is gross? Imagine what they'd think if they walked in on Tom and her mother on the kitchen table – before that moment she hadn't realized that people could have hair on their backs.)
2. She likes to read.
3. She has figured out that most people are stupid. They like to hear you say what they want to believe. Some examples of this are:
a. I'm so glad my mom and Mike are together. (gag me!)
b. I think you're really good at that. (for a Martian)
c. I just can't wait to go to your youth meeting. (seriously!)
d. Justin Timberlake is soooo HOT! (so not. So very, very NOTHOT)
4. She doesn't watch television (Not that she doesn't want to – but she's not allowed in the TV room when he's home – and he's always home. When she runs the world you'll be able to get television shows on your computer.)
5. He's not her daddy. He's not even her 2nd daddy, or 5th, or 10th…
6. She finds math easy.
7. It's a French Justaucorps style coat. She made it herself from a pattern in a book (there's that reading thing again) from the library (librarian's rock!) It's made from the curtains in Daddy Steve mother's dining room (Stealing the drapes was supposed to be prank, but they installed a burglar alarm before she could get back and replace them.)
8. Today she has three safety pins pushed through her belly button.
9. She has a new Apple Powerbook in her backpack. It's stolen. (But her mother thinks she bought it for her from the school. Seriously, a new Powerbook for $500.00? Her mom smokes crack.)
10. She already has four kids paying her to copy her homework, and she's only been at this school two weeks.
11. Someday she was going to run the world. She has a plan.
a. Computers
b. Politics
c. Wealthy Husband (or maybe a supervillianish husband who would conquer the world and give it to her to run (someone like Magneto but not so creepy or old))
d. Alternate: she could discover that her father was some fabulous super wealthy genius and could marry David Bowie instead of the supervillian.
she dreams it is always winter.