Suzy - A Ballad in 5 Parts

Part III - Roxie

Those days the air was wild cold

And the bell rang letting us free

Three ladies in the courtyard

Alice, Margaret and me

Roxie and the Snakes arrived

And we began to intervene

I let Margaret be the first to speak

Since I knew what she'd seen

Jackson had once dated her

Back in the eighth grade

And she'd caught him with her neighbor

The scars took long to fade

Alice had been felt-up

Just the year before

And Carl was hostile for one time

Slamming Jackson to the floor

He'd called June-Bug names

And he'd treated Kit-Kat like trash

And he'd tried once to convince me

Margaret screwed our friend, Nash

Roxie's eyes of deep olive green

So wide to see, for her we cared

But she still felt that he was changed

To hurt any of us? He wouldn't dare.

I walked with her later that day

And she seemed stunned when I called her beautiful

And it saddened me to see that she

Knew not love, just a bunch of bull

Her parents came to retrieve her

She embraced me and dashed away

That was the last I saw her before

The horrors of the following day