Diana Crescent official

I’m an asshole

I get angry a lot

I have lost the ability to be polite

Mostly because, I have found that there is complicity in politeness

And yet, civility dictates that you should

smile when spoken to

not judge people

and do as you are told

I am tired of doing as I am told

especially when doing as you are told does nothing but

keep the status quo

I am a single woman

thirty-five

no desire to have kids or be a wife

and actually, I think I’m fine

because my grandmother was an immigrant bride,

got pregnant thirteen times,

raised five,

and I am getting my degree,

in spite of all of the hits my father threw at me,

and if nothing else,

at least I’ve tried,

I’d rather be alive and full of spite,

than dead like my Stepmother,

who had the misfortune

of being married to my father,

and died