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Did you even find eight honest things about the suburbs?

i was actually thinking about this a couple of months ago and feeling really down about the whole thing, because i think i didn’t know why adults chose the suburbs. i mean i think i was looking at the world through poop-colored lenses that summer. i still hate the burbs, but i don’t feel so sorry or above the people who chose to live here. you know? and i still feel like it’s the most contrived form of living, but maybe not any more contrived than just living at all. because in phoenix it feels especially oppressive and illogical – it’s a desert. we’re not even supposed to be here! but then also it can feel like that anywhere. i mean you could say that about anywhere.

and yet here we all are.

i don’t know, i think maybe the 8 honest things about the suburbs are the 7 days a week we live here and the 1 time we get the fuck out.

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how old were you when you begun doing cocaine? how long were you doing it? have you noticed any after-effect?

i was 21 the first time
in college in michigan

he brought it over
a book, too
also be brought me a book
by steve martin

it felt so good and bright and full of love
it felt so good!
he confessed the depths of his love for me
and we stayed up all night talking

and then in the morning the drugs wore off
he got a nosebleed and had plans with his girlfriend
had to go to work
was bleeding so much
(this wasn’t the first time for him)

and then in the morning the drugs wore off
i felt worse than i’d ever felt, ever
i cried and writhed
i took an entire bottle of elavil
and slept all day
i missed work
i’d never done that before
not ever

coming down felt as terrible
as being up had felt wonderful

**

then it was the summer of 2005, in new york, when i was 24, i guess, or 23? i was in that neighborhood. and i was hooking up with girls, and getting paid in cash, and it was always warm and krista was gone. i don’t remember how often i did it, really, and this kept going i guess for a year? it never felt again like it’d felt that first time. maybe some weeks it would be every other day, and then it would be a month without – i never chased the dragon again though, like i did that first night, where we snorted line after line after merciless line. i was more measured, i guess.

i don’t know what after-effects i might feel?
honestly i’ve made so many mistakes with this body
it would be hard to know what to blame
for anything that happens next

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what do you do if a super cute girl asks you to hook up and you really want to but you are on your period?

i think the thing to do is a) say “aaaah damn it! i’m bleeding :(” – i feel like you could text that but maybe i’m just into oversharing – and then b) depending on her reaction, you could go for “i mean, i don’t mind if you don’t mind…” – i’m texting again – or try out “so you’re good for a raincheck, right?”

maybe? there are smoother people than me. i’m the bleeder! you’re like, barking up the wrong straddler or something. i’d probably just throw down a towel and pretend not to notice and then make her feel like a jerk if she had a negative reaction.

no that’s not true, i’d go w/ option A.

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I didn’t know you loved tune-yards! Saw her last night in Austin… She. Was. AWESOME.

riese’s gf marni introduced me to tune-yards in like 2009 when i was having the worst year of my life, and it felt like merrill garbus reached into my chest and yanked me up by my lungs and dared me to do something besides cry. i mean, it took a while to accept that dare, but i did it.

i’m so excited you got to see her in austin! I CAN’T WAIT FOR NEXT FRIDAY.

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