Judy Blume

People keep asking me why I do things that I do
 In all of this measuring influence I forgot you
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 You and me hiding behind the Monhegan Hotel
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 And you told me things that nobody around me would tell
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 That was the summer when everyone touched me at once
 
 One day they ignored me
 The next, they were all down my pants
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 But you were in bed with me, safe, before anyone else
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 You opened beside me
 And held me when I needed help
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 You and me lying together at night in my room
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 You've been inside me forever, Judy Blume
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 I couldn't carry a tune but I thought I could sing
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 No one had told me that thoughts were a good or bad thing
 
 But I started noticing grown-ups would smile and cringe
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 You taught me that you could say anything you could think
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 I don't remember my friends from gymnastics class
 But I remember when Deenie was at the school
 Dance, Buddy feeling her up in the locker room
 Margaret, bored, counting hats in the synagogue
 Davey was stirring the tea that she wouldn't drink
 Tony was watching his so-called friend shoplifting
 All of them lived in my head, quietly whispering
 You are not so strange
 I don't remember the details of seventh grade
 All I remember is lying and being afraid
 But I don't forget Katherine and Michael were going all the way
 Steph on the scale in the bathroom alone that day
 Karen pretending to puke so her dad would stay
 Margaret arguing with God while she masturbated
 All of them mixed up in my head like a love letter
 All of those saying: Amanda you know better
 You are not to blame
 The world's a frightening place
 So go on and think how you want
 You will not be alone with your thoughts
 Well you will, but you won't in a way
 'Cause a girl thought it too in a book that the library bought
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 People will keep asking me why I do things like I do
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 And from now on I'll tell them Nick Cave and I'll talk about you
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 Judy, I can't believe sometimes that I'm an adult
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 And the girls like I was think that I have this shit figured out
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 You and me lying together at night in my room
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 You'll be inside them forever, Judy Blume