This Makes Me Yucky

So, there's this kid
And he starts school
And he makes his friends
And he gets good grades
And he starts to notice
Growing up out of the ground all around him are these monoliths
These- these huge
Ghosts
Their heads, they're the size of semi trucks
Jutting out of the ground all around him
And he finds that only he can see them!

Anyone else would be scared
But this kid thought to himself
"I'm special! I'm important!"
"These big ghosts all around are some sort of gift!"
And he sees with each A+
And new friend and poem he writes
These gigantic ghosts grow taller
"I must be helping them, and they're helping me."
Right?

So he gets a little older
And he's thriving
And he can see the ghosts' elbows now
High school starts
And he goes to a different school than his friends
"More opportunities" he thinks

The first day
He tells a joke to break the ice
With the first person who looks nice to him
And it falls flat

The other kid wanders off
And later, whispers and spreads rumors about the new weirdo
And his weird jokes

When our boy leaves school that day
He notices these massive ghosts' hands
Are freed from the ground
"What did I do?" he thinks

The next day
He steps on someone's shoes
They chew him out
And now the ghosts are out up to their thighs
"How am I helping them?"
"I'm special, right?"
"They're climbing out thanks to me, right?"

Soon they're standing so tall
He has to look straight up to see them
And they're getting closer

Now it's every F
And every friend he can't make
Every time he's embarrassed, it-
Puts these massive ghosts just a little bit closer to him now
Leaning down and looking at him

By the end of school
He can smell their breath
And by the time he can drink
He's surrounded everywhere he looks
By these massive heads all around him
Stinking
And whispering real quiet
And looking right at him

One day he spills his drink on the ground
And suddenly he can understand the whispering
He looks up from the floor
And the mouth of a ghost is just about touching him
And it says
"Nothing you did made any difference."