I AM A SHINING STAR<\/strong>
\nWord Count: 319<\/p>\n

<\/a>I can bend the willow trees and stir the oaks. I can even make it rain. I can lead all the cats in town into the river with a song but of course I wouldn\u2019t do that. It\u2019s only people that I don\u2019t get along with. Them, I would.<\/p>\n

Women tell me that my skirt\u2019s too short because I have nice long legs and their\u2019s are lumpy-kneed and veiny. They think because I\u2019m only twenty that I don\u2019t know anything at all. They snicker over husband jokes and even if I get the punchline I don\u2019t let on. I never want to get like them. I hope I never do.<\/p>\n

My mother is an Avon lady. She paints her face with quarter-inch grape lipstick samples and tiny packets made for a single application of sparkle purple eye shadow. She says she peddles Avon because it\u2019s a really good product and because she enjoys helping people but it\u2019s really for those samples. She doesn\u2019t have the guts for going after what she really wants. She nibbles and licks at life with a tongue that\u2019s only millimeters long.<\/p>\n

My father is a corporate asshole. He goes wherever they send him and comes home stinking of booze and women. Well I don\u2019t really know that but I\u2019m sure he does because he loves to go on these business trips and my mother gets all pissed off about it but makes a roast with mashed potatoes and gravy and four different vegetables and some fancy cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e dessert when he comes home. I even feel bad for her. It\u2019s just so lame.<\/p>\n

Neither one of them pay much attention to me even though I am an only child. If my mother would wash her face and look at me without her makeup, if my father would drink lemonade or ginger ale, they\u2019d know that I can turn a rainbow upside-down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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