i always liked housecleaning
even as a child
i dug straightening cabinets
putting new paper on shelves
washing the refrigerator
inside out
and unfortunately this habit
has carried over and i find
i must now remove you
from my life.
-- nikki giovanni
05.09.07 :: and then i let him touch my
cherry ... but just this once
got
back from my atlanta trip on sunday and i really haven't been right
since. i guess you could chalk it up to a "gratitude"
visit, as in: "i am so grateful that i don't live like that."
i went on the trip to attend this,
and ended up splitting my time between the hotel and visiting with
some friends of mine who still live in the city.
i mean, i love hotlanta. i lived there for a year and i had some
great times there ... in my mid-20s! but now that we're all "gettin'
up there" in age, we need to put the tina straws down and live
like the thirtysomething-year-olds that we are, am i right? the
way that some of my friends are still living there in hotlanta just
really, really puts me off.
but i'm being too cryptic. what i mean is this: there comes a time
in a middle-aged queen's life when she needs to come to the realization
that she's not the belle of the ball anymore. her job description
has changed. it's no longer to get fucked up on drugs and party
all night long, sleeping with anything showing life signs. she needs
to have worked through all her self-hatred and insecurities. she
needs to grow up into the graceful woman she was meant to be...
gentle reader, the time comes when all queens must surrender their
crowns to the younger, and dare i say, prettier generation, and
make them work that shit out. we must move on. we must.
i always liked housecleaning