Mindy Nettifee - When the Economy Was Booming

idealization:

We used to masturbate to Radiohead
or slide in some Nine Inch Nails and hook
our thumbs around the jutting hip bones
of some skinny messy boy.

The world was ours enough at least to piss
and puke and fuck on. We repeated favorite mistakes
like solid gold records, spun our wheels in thrift store
stilettos, dotted vanilla extract on our wrists.

We erased the muscle memories of our mothers
by cooking recipes for homemade bombs.
We spoke only in famous words.
We were free in the only way we knew how.

Nihilist joy whores. Kids kicking up sand.
Railing scowling Neo-Marxist darlings.
The earth we knew was made of crushed shoe box caskets
and chalk lines and the hot dust we all turn to.

You have to make your own sense. Fear wants all
or none of you, so become the bad element. Beat ‘em to the punch.
It will always be dangerous to be a girl, to be anything so soft.
Better to carry a lit cigarette. Spike your charm bracelets.

Walk with a death wish so strong
the Santa Ana dogs whine your song.
Better to control the lighting you’ll be objectified in,
even if it’s dark.
Even if you can’t see anything at all.

(Source: badgrrrlmeat)

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