Category: A Woman’s Plight
Collapsing
“At the door of my history.”
(The Way That You Were – Sleep Token)
Looķing Back
“I remember my vow to myself that I knew how to and would keep the silver in my hair from spreading…
I guess it’s ok that I ‘failed.'”
My Love,
Coming Home
Planned Obsolescence
“Something that worked is gone – just gone!”
It’s A (New Moon On Monday – Duran Duran)
Terror
“Must be grappled with and reshaped into preparedness.”
(Home – Daughtry)
Dragging
“Forward.”
Press
“I’m not gonna.”
A Default Day Off
“Just happened by necessity before events ramp up.”
(Don’t Dim Your Light – LaRose Hart)
It Hurt
To hold it all inside.
To keep it quiet…secret…safe.
My Love,
Never think that my silence is an absence of regard or desire for you…
In fact, it means quite the opposite.
I Can’t Be
“Who I used to be.”
(The One That You Love – Air Supply)
(Love The Hell Out Of You – Lewis Capaldi)
Ms.Density
“Another 2 pounds from yesterday’s fumes and gas exposure. Just below 207.”
Tell Me
“I’m Ok.
You’re Ok.
We’re Ok.”
(Fergalicious – Fergie)
Rights To Blight
“I’m gonna go get some cookies – and eat ’em all up.
‘Cause if I’m gonna have to be FAT from all of this BS not of my doing – then I’m gonna earn it!”
Ableism
“I’m in the ER and can’t call…”
“Uh-oh – but can you step out of the room for a moment so I can finish this business with you?”
(The Way You Love Me – Oryn Etheria)
Yellow
Dearest,
What more is there to say?
I want you, every day.
My Love,
I dreamed that we were together.
Feeling “Fat”
“Does not mean weight loss drugs are my answer.”
(Regarding ad bombardments)
“So It Says”
Fortune’s Cookie
Coming out of the fast food joint with a cookie in her hand, her insides crumpled as she realized that her wolf and hound were no longer there to give its halves to.
(DYWTYLM – Sleep Token)
Cheese
“So many mazes must be traversed to find it.”
Good Enough
“When is good enough -?”
Caught In Love
She had told herself that it would be safe to love him, because she had never expected him to turn her way.
Don’t Tell Me
“That I’m not enough – get off of my cloud, man.”
Ability To Create Music
“‘They’ve’ got it. I want it.”
(One – U2)
Missing Components
“Patched together carriage and strength.”
Pleurasy
“My lungs whistle and squeek now when on my back, exhaling.”
(24/7, 365 – Elijah Woods)
Where’s My Other Flip-Flop?!
“I don’t know…but it shoe-ed be there – Ah-Ha!”
(Breathless – Jerro)
I Had Naively Thought
“That I could sleep on today, but instead got ‘smoked out of sanctuary.'”
“It’s Always Something”
“Seems to be an absolute, unavoidable aspect of current life.”
Minor Miracle
“YES! I have two sho-oo-oes!!”
(Finding the other one at last in my car)
Free Will
“You don’t get to choose to not have the problems – just whether or not you are going to lose your sh** over them.”
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