People are awesome, funny, personable, there for you, kind, just all around fun to be around. But those same people could also be the worst assholes I’ve ever met. Ex’s in particular are great about doing that. I’m not exactly sure what’s gonna come out of this, whether anyone will read any of it, or why I’m going to post this. But I do know that these things have just been hammering away at my brain..
I am gonna talk shit. People always say it’s bad..but shit has been on my mind lately and it’s not gonna go away unless I get it out..OR maybe the people the shit is on will read this and things can get worked out. All I know is, I made this blog for a reason: to share my thoughts. So here it goes:
Dear Beth,
You are funny. You are very easy to get along with (when you are sober) and you ooze with this innate ability to attract people. I don’t understand how someone as selfish, inconsiderate, rude, and judgemental as you can have so many women FLOCKING to you. It’s shenanigans. When things were good with us, it was good..but when things got bad you just fucking bailed. I admit, I checked out pretty early on. But there is also something to be said about the fact that you made fun of me every step, you shamelessly flirted with other girls while I was in the room, and you were (and still are) the biggest stoner I’ve ever met. So..why does this matter enough for me to write about? Everything I listed above didn’t matter at all until last night. I’ll come clean: I WAS facebook stalking you. But if it’s on the internet, its public domain and I can look if I want. Anyways: I stumbled upon something that indicated that not only did you lie to me about nothing going to happen with Jen, but you are infact DATING. I’m not jealous. Oh man. FAR FROM. But the fact that you lied to me when I had been completely honest with you..you are a dick. One big, veiny dick. So I deleted you. We broke up on the premise that you needed space to figure out yourself. You needed to be single and have time to understand why things were shit in your life. You specifically TOLD me that nothing was going to happen with Jen, that the breakup was simply because of your own faults. God you’re a douche. A lying sack of douche.
The end.
I guess the moral of the story is that if you let people in you have to face the consequences of letting them get so close and then dissapointing you in the end. The coolest people, the sweetest, and the kindest all have the potential to fail you in some way. And me, like an idiot, will keep trying to see the good in those people because if they were the cool, sweet, kind person then they might still be despite the times that they’re being a dick. Maybe I should be more selective on WHO I trust? Maybe I should wait to trust someone until I really know what his or her deal is? I don’t really know. I guess it’s just one of those things that has to come in time and is very situational.
Another point: Emotions suck. What also sucks is when they are unpredictable, slightly overwhelming, and contradicting. The misconception that someone who is emotional can’t control their emotions and can’t be mature about the way life is and its realities…well, it’s getting tiring and I’m sick of having to prove that the two things can exist in one person. Maturity+Emotional ability= ME. So get over yourselves and meet me in the middle with the same amount of respect, honesty, and maturity I gave you.
Relationships and love and liking people…it’s all great, but that’s not the only reasons I have for talking to somebody. Taking an interest in someone doesn’t have to mean that you want to marry him or her.
This might all come across as angry, mean, vindictive..whatever. Take it or leave it and interpret it any way you like. It's just one fat, honest rant.
I don't read poetry, I don't really even read anymore because I'm too busy to ever actually sit down and do the deed ya know. I have never been to Europe, or even out of this country, I don't do extreme things, and I am a far cry from the coolest person you'll ever meet. I just realize that I think wayyyy too much so: instead of making my friends victims of my rants on love, life, and whatever pops in my head, I'm gonna write and give people the choice! It's a consensual thang.
Here are some slam poetry bits I wrote over the past few days! Enjoy. I am new at this, but I think it' gon' be fun!
L
Is for the way you Look at me
O
Is for the only One I see
V
Is very, VERY, extraordinary
E
Is for Every motherfucker that says we can’t be together.
Every stare I get when I wear my pride on my sleeve.
Every propostion preventing me from you for forever.
Every job I wont get
Every child I won’t have
Every pissed off parent,
Every beliigerent conservative on my ASS,
Every wedding photo that will never be taken,
Every time my father won’t walk me down
That flower-lined aisle
While the music plays
And my ridiculous, too expensive
Off-white, beaded monster
Trails behind me like the past I’m leaving behind
For my future with the one I love.
But then again, I am my own goddamn person.
I don’t need to be given away.
Like livestock at a slaughter.
You motherfuckers and your restrictions.
You won’t budge for one inch.
You preach, and you bitch..
But there is no equality when basic human rights
Are limited.
With-held.
Held over my head, just within reach, dangled infront of me, so close!
But never, truly realized.
__________________________
____________________
Short skirts and heels.
That’s what makes a woman.
That’s what attracts a man.
How I should express myself
Short skirts and heels
Leaving nothing for the imagination
Leaving me to wonder
Where I fit.
Nothing fits.
The size 4 designer jeans never fit
Designed to make me feel
So
Inadequate.
The make up
And the lingerie
Make me feel
So
Out of place.
The girls that catch everyone’s eye
The girls attracting every guy
Why?
Why do I
Have to play this game
To stake my claim
Why do I
Have to wear a lipstick stained,
Fingernail polish painted
Giggly, braided, maimed
Sign
Telling you I’m interested
To pay attention?
Instead I sit back
Watch the game unfold
As every girl in the room gets picked, except me.
Every
last
one.
Fuck it.
I don't need it.
I'm TIRED of IT.
But I want it.
I want
secretly
in
some place.
To be the smart
dork
nerd
geek
jock
dude
bro
passionate feminist
And still catch
your eye.
My Grandma Rose.
Was a stubborn,
Old,
Crazy,
Cranky,
Inconsiderate,
Selfish,
Did I mention old?
Bitch.
She swore,
Cursed
Bitched
Complained
Forgot,
And then she forgot..
And forgot..
And forgot…
Forgot everything.
And then everyone
forgot
About her.
She was there from FDR through Obama
88 years of
War
Famine
Inflation
Contagion
Degradation
Depression
Descrimination
Determination.
From 4 kids to 3 strokes,
Dead husband, dead son.
Dead mother and father.
Dead soul fumbling, barely holding her head above water.
The life she led, up until her death
I’ve never known, even after her last breath.
The empty shell I saw
Was a warning
A call.
Take the fall
Patti.
Take it all.
Live.
Life is a verb
Not a noun
Not just a word.
I may have 10 years
Or 10 seconds
But that life beckons
Which direction?
So many choices
But only 1 to make
Not sure which path to take
Look up it’s here,
now
Time won’t wait.
I was there.
Standing across the room
From the machines barely keeping her awake
Alive
From my father
My sister
My mother and brother.
By her every day
Every night
Every hour she was chained to that bed
By the tubes
And the meds.
Inside my head I cried
I cried.
Why?
I won’t even pretend
I saw her last breath
Or
That I remember the last thing she said.
That I even knew who she really was
Beyond
The things I had come to assume.
The person I had gotten used to.
She had to have been happy once?
This woman I’ll never love.
88 years
poverty
strife
disability
dislike
Why was she alone
With us
The furthest from her name
Where were her daughters?
Her Grandchildren?
Nobody came.
The shriveled arms
Attached to her old body, a waif
Nothing left except that frail look of desperate pain.
I could tell
she
Could tell
That it was time.
I finally got the courage
To look her right in the face
To see her leave this place.
But I was too late.
Her pale, paper-thin skin
Eyes shut
Peaceful grin
White, cold body
Stiff, every limb.
The woman, the soul
I’ll never truly know..
Life is not a noun
It’s a verb
Don’t take it for granted.
Don’t let it end like hers.
Every time I fall in love
It’s like writing a symphony
Every time has it’s own pulse
Rhythm
Harmony.
Whether her 16ths fit perfectly
Into the dissonance of my 7th chord frenzy
Or his hands stroke my keys just right
Delicately
Like the Patethique.
Or the Firebird Suite.
Yet
Each has it’s own flow, it’s own melody.
Rich with harmony
Or pasionately fiery.
Every heart beat, the pulse
Every climax, the result
Of built up tension, decay and release
Twisting and turning our tones as we play.
Still incomplete..
We move,
swell,
dip,
dive,
swoon
Every change never comes too soon.
Every unique part just as beautiful
Meaningful
Get lost in you like never before
Take my breath away, heart deep in the score
Build up the tension,
build up the fray
Notes get faster and higher
we float away.
Don’t stop
Don’t slow
Don’t end it until every last note has been played.
Don’t go
Until the music fades.
And when it’s done
It’s done.
The passion
Passed
The ‘I love you’s’
said
Leave the stage knowing
This piece, written by us
Will never be played the same
By any other player.
Never.
And
Even though there are still pieces that have yet to be written
Lovers yet to be had
Suspensions yet to be held
Dissonances yet to resolve
Pulses yet to be felt.
But in that moment:
That music was ours.
That time was ours.
Our stage was set.
Leave it with no regrets.
You say I am an abomination..
I say fuck that
I say we both have a pair of eyes
A nose
Ears
Hands
So what if mine wander on the body of a woman
So what if my life wanders from the perfect life you wish me to lead.
Perfection is in the eye of the beholder
As is the righteousness in the path I choose to follow
No one but God can judge
But you insist
With the persistent glare at the back of my head
On judging me for how I live,
Love,
And who I love.
Who are you
Telling me which way is
Up
Down
Right
Wrong?
The only wrong I see is in the faces of the loved ones
Waiting in the pastel polyester lounge
While the one person they cherish
lies dying in a hospital bed
While you tell them:
They aren’t allowed.
They aren’t welcome.
They are an abomination.
Well:
They aren’t the ones that followed me
To school
On the bus
With their condescending eyes
The ones that told me that love is only allowed if you are straight.
Straight to hell
I guess that’s where I’m going.
Straight
into the arms of the person I love.
If that’s hell then who needs a heaven?
Straight into
The eyes of that Lieutenant who chained himself to the White House fence
The face of a man who looks like a million dollars in his bright red lipstick
The soul of the little boy trapped inside a woman’s body
And
The heart of every gay
Lesbian
Transgender
Queer
Bisexual
Pansexual
PERSON
Made invalid to society by their sexuality
Unwelcome
Unaccepted
Hated
Ridiculed
Discriminated
Void.
Turned away from serving the very country that preaches equality for all.
Turned faces
At my gaze
Stand up and stare back.
Meet my eyes and tell me I’m not a person.
Tell me that God has a plan for me.
Tell me that the only way to heaven
Is a dick in my vagina
A baby on my hip
A bible in my pocket
And a ring on my finger.
Tell me that for 20 years
My loving to please a woman is just a phase
Is unnatural.
As treatable as the common cold
Curable.
Call me queer,
But I don’t buy that.
I don’t buy that god hates fags
And copulation is the only reason for sex
That rights are only reserved for the majority
Love is only right if the puzzle pieces fit
And that gender
Race
Sexuality
Should determine your validity as a whole
perfect
imperfect Human being.
The only puzzle pieces that matter
Are in the personality
The way his
or her body
pours into mine like water into an ice-filled glass cup
the way
the smile
the laughter
the everything
Find their way into my heart
The way it fits perfectly
Like a tiny game of tetris.
It feels more natural
Right
Perfect
Than any touch
Kiss
Caress
From any of the heterosexual bullshit
That never mattered
Ever.
And never
Again will I let myself
Scrub down
Every part of me that wants a woman’s touch
Hold down
Every word I’ve wanted to yell back for my 20 years alive