Thursday, January 10, 2013

Jealousy

Unsolicited Advice to Adolescent Girls with Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair
By Jeanann Verlee

When your mother hits you, do not strike back.
When the boys call asking your cup size, say A, hang up.
When he says you gave him blue balls, say you’re welcome.
When a girl with thick black curls who smells like bubble gum stops you in a stairwell to ask if you’re a boy, explain that you keep your hair short so she won’t have anything to grab when you head-butt her.
Then head-butt her.
When a guidance counselor teases you for handed-down jeans, do not turn red.
When you have sex for the second time and there is no condom, do not convince yourself that screwing between layers of underwear will soak up the semen.
When your geometry teacher posts a banner reading: “Learn math or go home and learn how to be a Momma,” do not take your first feminist stand by leaving the classroom.
When the boy you have a crush on is sent to detention, go home.
When your mother hits you, do not strike back.
When the boy with the blue mohawk swallows your heart and opens his wrists, hide the knives, bleach the bathtub, pour out the vodka. Every time.
When the skinhead girls jump you in a bathroom stall, swing, curse, kick, do not turn red.
When a boy you think you love delivers the first black eye, use a screw driver, a beer bottle, your two good hands.
When your father locks the door, break the window.
When a college professor writes you poetry and whispers about your tight little ass, do not take it as a compliment, do not wait, call the Dean, call his wife.
When a boy with good manners and a thirst for Budweiser proposes, say no.
When your mother hits you, do not strike back.
When the boys tell you how good you smell, do not doubt them, do not turn red.
When your brother tells you he is gay, pretend you already know.
When the girl on the subway curses you because your T-shirt reads: “I fucked your boyfriend,” assure her that it is not true.
When your dog pees the rug, kiss her, apologize for being late.
When he refuses to stay the night because you live in Jersey City, do not move.
When he refuses to stay the night because you live in Harlem, do not move.
When he refuses to stay the night because your air conditioner is broken, leave him.
When he refuses to keep a toothbrush at your apartment, leave him.
When you find the toothbrush you keep at his apartment hidden in the closet, leave him.
Do not regret this.
Do not turn red.
When your mother hits you, do not strike back.


I don't know why I picked this one exactly. It just seemed real, yet so far from anything that would ever happen to me. I guess that's why I like it I wish I wasn't suck in this little bubble that way I could actually write something worth reading. Something other than Love and the cold weather. I'm just jealous because the way she words things, the way she's not afraid to say something because she might offend someone. I almost didn't post this, because I thought would if I offend someone. That's my problem. I tiptoe around everyones expectations of who I should be. Why can't I be one of those risk takers?

Pari holds the key to your heart

 
 


 
 
 
 
I was so excited to go to Paris.
It was all I hoped for and more. I was nervous at the beginning, then I got comfortable and learn to love everything about it.
The last couple weeks I have gone sight seeing, I left my journal and the coffe shops. I have become.....well a tourist you could say.
Part of me feels bad, because paris taught me so many things I never would have learn other wise. But my hands have run out of words and I'm home sick.

So now all I can say is it's been real good, but it's time to go home.
Don't worry I will take part of you with me and maybe come back and visit from time to time.

Goodbye