We're not gonna get caught

 We're not the same?
Look at my hands
My skin is cracked like yours
Look at my face
My tears are as bright as yours
Look at my heart
Look into yours
We all love the same way.

Breaking form// breaking out

 I saw that girl walking home
Her arms outstretched
Hands uncovered in the biting wind
Holding, of all things
A book.

Did Adam and Eve begin the cycle of sexism? Was Christianity just another excuse to dominate and oppress? Cynicism is rotting my soul, but I'm afraid of not knowing the truth.

I resent that the most a high school girl wants for herself is a date to the upcoming dance.
I resent that when you see someone running outside, you assume it's a male.
I resent stereotypes, I resent having to get dressed in the morning, I resent gender roles, and I resent society.
Bitter full of this bitterness breaking into my heart.
How do you reclaim your innocence? How do you make this all
Stop.

Challenged

 I will take the 50 Book Challenge.

I will post in this blog every time I finish one.
Let the reading begin.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
6. Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
7. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
8. 28 Days Later: The Aftermath by Steve Niles
9. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
10. The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
12. The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay
13. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
14. Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt
15. Keeping You a Secret by Julie Ann Peters
16. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
17. 1984 by George Orwell
18. Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
19. All About Love by bell hooks
20. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

If I Were God

If I were god:

Snow would be my way of fixing things.
Snow coats the whole world
With a delicate icing of glory.
No matter how turbulent or chaotic or
Just plain goddamn terrible life gets,
Snow has the power to restore its grace,
Its fundamental, downright undeniable beauty.
Not the kind of beauty you could buy,
Or apply in a fancy European cream.
The kind that brings hope, and joy,
To a world so desperately in need of it.