<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" class="">Prodigy</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" class="">She was a second-rate prodigy </div><div dir="auto" class="">The winner of a very small prize</div><div dir="auto" class="">She was a second-rate prodigy </div><div dir="auto" class="">And when she looked in the mirror</div><div dir="auto" class="">She never ever looked into</div><div dir="auto" class=""> her own eyes</div><div dir="auto" class=""> She had a two-bit collection </div><div dir="auto" class="">Of ribbons and medals and such</div><div dir="auto" class=""> She had a two-bit collection </div><div dir="auto" class="">And when you got down to it</div><div dir="auto" class=""> It didn’t really mean</div><div dir="auto" class=""> very much</div><div dir="auto" class=""> But she’d tell her story again and again</div><div dir="auto" class=""> About her days of glory, way back when</div><div dir="auto" class="">She was a two-bit prodigy, a tin-horn winner</div><div dir="auto" class="">And her fame got thinner every year.</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" class="">There came a day she wondered </div><div dir="auto" class="">If the stories had ever been true</div><div dir="auto" class="">There came a day she wondered </div><div dir="auto" class="">And the more she thought about it</div><div dir="auto" class="">The more she couldn’t tell,</div><div dir="auto" class=""> not a clue</div><div dir="auto" class=""> And she started to giggle</div><div dir="auto" class="">It seemed like a pretty good joke</div><div dir="auto" class=""> And she started to giggle </div><div dir="auto" class="">And the harder she laughed</div><div dir="auto" class=""> The faster the old old fears turned to smoke</div><div dir="auto" class=""> And she said, God dammit, I don’t really care</div><div dir="auto" class=""> I am who I am, it’s truth or dare</div><div dir="auto" class="">And she looked in the mirror, and she saw her reflection</div><div dir="auto" class="">She said, It ain’t perfection, but at least it’s there</div></div><div class="x126k92a x11i5rnm xat24cr xtlvy1s x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div dir="auto" class="">She took the box of medals to the nearest thrift,</div><div dir="auto" class="">She said, Here, you take’em, they’re an outgrown gift</div><div dir="auto" class="">And they put’em in children’s toys</div><div dir="auto" class="">And a couple of little boys</div><div dir="auto" class=""> Got promoted to General, play-time General,</div><div dir="auto" class="">And the long-ago winner </div><div dir="auto" class="">Went out to dinner with her man, with her man,</div><div dir="auto" class="">Yeah, the real live winner </div><div dir="auto" class="">Had a slam-dunk dinner with her man.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Elizabeth Fuller</div></div></div></body></html>