Rebekah

Static on the paper. College-ruled lines on the TV. (I still can’t figure out how to break the paranoia.)

When I was in fifth grade, a boy on the bus told me, “My mom says people with a lot of beauty marks are beautiful.”

The boy next to him, his friend, said to me, “Yeah. You have a lot, but you aren’t very beautiful.”

When I was in fifth grade, I had a lot of beauty marks. But when those boys were in fifth grade, they were never allowed to be line leaders.

but some things never get better
like used cars and bad livers
so you traded her in for a better looking brand
one with fake porno tits,
a pad lock on her lips,
a disposable tan,
biodegradable hands

-the blood brothers