first published in 2001
My sister use to tell me to wake up and
smell the coffee. “You’re living in the past,” she would say,
“it has left you behind.”
“What you need is a fuck guilt coffee
mug to remind you every day that the past will never change. You
must see it as it was. And, that is all.”
Tangerine told me not to loan out
anything that I am not willing to give away, unless of course, the
person is expendable.
My mother use to tell me that I always
need to have the last word.
My lover used to say, “Have I told
you today that you are beautiful and that I love you?”