I Contemplated Becoming A Country Music Star, But Then I Got Knocked Up
Which definitely had never happened before.
Which definitely had never happened before.
What a waste of anticipatory time.
When the latest friend, beaming in her overpriced wedding dress, gushes over lace and obsesses over rhinestones and imagines that coveted…
Chances are you’ve seen the video and you’ve listened to the lyrics and you’ve caught on to the clever quips directed…
I’m afraid of accomplishment and success and the joyous occasions that are all-too fleeting.
1. You’ll be naked.
I’m sitting in the detective’s office with sweat pooling between nervous fingers and stinging the hangnails I’ve been biting for the past half hour. My body parts already photographed and categorized and sent away for collection, backlogged behind the arms and legs and breasts and thighs of women I will never meet yet, now, know better than I know myself.
It’s a trap. A scheme. A cleverly constructed allusion many interpret as nothing more than a way of life.
The first time I had sex, I was sixteen. Rushing between ominous finals I hopped on top of my overweight boyfriend with the intent of simply “getting it over with”.
You learned control and when you didn’t practice control, you were held accountable.