HEY, DEE—HEY GRADUATE!
For Deanna Victoria Pappas
9 June 2026
Hey, girl—young woman—Well done!
You carry so much love, and I kinda
wanna look at a few of these things
on the day you’re about to graduate--
but first, I just pruned the pine tree
out front, the one you’ve been styling
on your own, these growing years.
Styling is your specialty, well--
your genius. And you, girl, your
genius IQ is off the charts. It’s
in your eyes—not your make-up
eyes, your inner eyes, the eyes
no one can see. The eyes we all see,
when we say, Deanna. We don’t just say,
Deanna, either. We say, DEEZUS,
and it sounds like Jesus. That’s
what we see, that’s what we say--
because it’s what we’re thinking
when we say, Hey Girl! What’s up!
Style. Well, style is genius. You
did the work to get you here.
Now, girl. You’re about to find out
how much more there is. Let it find you.
When it does, you better believe it.
Love, Gpa
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