We Are Taught To View Pain As

What Makes You So Lavish That You Can Afford To Spend Every Sober Moment Feeling Angry And Bored?

We Negotiate With Chaos For Some Sense Of Satisfaction.

My Country Tis Of Thee, To Take Swings At Each Other On Talk Show Tv.

If You Want To Challenge The System, Don't Go To Bed With It.

My Mother Was A Feminist, And She Gave Me Some Tools Of Self-possession And Self-empowerment, But Now That I Have Lived Here For Forty-three Years, It's, Like, Whoa, There Is Just So Much More To Do, Other Than Become Myself. I'm Still Talking About It. I Still Drop The P-word, "patriarchy," On Unsuspecting People In Everyday Conversations.