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Rachael Seaward

What I Hate About You

I wonder if you know, cause if you knew then maybe you’d stop

That annoying thing you do every time we talk

Don’t just stand there, you, not even disguising your stare

But it’s not as if it matters to me, I honestly don’t care

You’d like to think I really do, you want to think I’m interested

But really I’m only just passing by, feeling at most disgusted

Can you not stop twirling that stupid basketball in the air?

Can you cease playing that guitar to hear that nobody cares?

Why do you look at me as if our paths are meant to cross?

As into your eyes I stare, my gaze, my purpose lost

But only in contempt I swear, I hate you I really do

Can you not see that I do everything to stay away from you?

Oh please, again with your stupid song

You’re rude, you’re pretentious, your hair is too long

I hear you loud and disrupting, the ugly sound of your voice

You think I’m there listening, as if it was my choice

I only don’t leave because the rush of hate prevents me

I become so paralyzed with revulsion, I’m unable to flee

Please just go away and never come back

So my heart’s truest love can find a simpler, a less persistent, and a less horribly painful track.

[TABLE OF CONTENTS, LHS CLASS OF 2011 EDITION]