rocket ship girls

"you are all planets and i am a rocket.

i have always been a rocket.

when i visit you, i visit a different world

which is fine and all. i just have to make sure

to don my spacesuit of pink puffy dresses

and lipstick, or else you've got a

murder on your hands."

rocket ship girls is Elizabeth Johnston's debut poetry collection about girlhood, blind devotion, and changing who you are for the wrong people.