Kristen Stewart is an actress

Who became very famous in 2008

For playing the most attractive person in a film franchise

About beautiful vampires

And everyone hated her

Because she didn’t smile enough.

Kristen Stewart was seventeen in 2008,

Which I didn’t know until I looked it up just now.

When I was seventeen I was not famous

And I had complicated feelings about Kristen Stewart,

The same way I had complicated feelings about all teenage girls.

When I was seventeen I probably knew a lot less than Kristen Stewart.
In 2008 I turned sixteen without learning any fundamental truths about myself

And was disappointed that I couldn’t say

‘Sweet sixteen and never been kissed’

Because of an incident with a boy when I was twelve

And which I’ve never really processed.

I thought about kissing all the time,

Just not about kissing Kristen Stewart.
When Kristen Stewart was twenty six,

There was an incident with a film director

And everyone hated her for being unhappy.

When I was twenty six a lot changed and I was often very unhappy

And I spent a lot of time thinking about kissing Kristen Stewart.
At twenty seven Kristen Stewart came out as bisexual

And confirmed what lesbians on the internet had known for many years.

When I was eighteen I came out as bisexual

And confirmed something I had been afraid of for many years.

I am twenty seven

And Kristen Stewart is starring in a movie

About female spies,

An earlier incarnation of which I saw in primary school

And which I told my mother made me gay.

My mother

Cannot pronounce Kristen Stewart’s name correctly.

My mother

Also could not correctly say Kirsten,

The name of a girl who joined my primary school in year five.

Kirsten had beautiful hair and I thought we were going to be friends

But then she became a popular girl instead.

I was never a popular girl,

And I was bad at keeping friends.

I felt about Kirsten the way I felt about Kristen Stewart in 2008.
Kristen Stewart is twenty nine and in love

And most people think she’s really cool

And she’s won awards for her acting.

I am twenty seven and in love

And I write poems about Kristen Stewart

Because she’s very beautiful and I want to kiss her

And I no longer hate young certain women on principle

The way I did in 2008

And I hadn’t thought about Kirsten in years

Until I started writing this poem,

But I hope that all the girls I used to know are happy.