Can you pay my...

Fashion modeling and prostitiution are the only professions in which women consistently earn more than men.

Hmm....

And women on average are still earning 74 cents to men's dollar. Yet we still have the same bills to pay, even more if you consider the cost of make-up, shampoo and other products and women's clothing, which is generally more expensive than men's clothing.

Given all that, you can be sure I'm gonna let the man pay for things.


(And yeah, sucker, I know I don't HAVE to buy lipstick and lotion, but I'm gonna, and because I do, and millions of other women and girls DO, this country for many years has had an economic leg to stand on.)

FADED VOICES

corner gas station attendants
hand me my change and my destiny
with a smile

while buses pass by
taking with them the
promise of going places
unseen

black ice invades
as it lays covering ground
covering nights
that fade like memories
and like voices

dark gives way to bitter light
and people on the street
shiver to bring back that feeling
of warmth of better days
which are always better
when in the past

i walk alone
listening to the faded voices
in my mind

Beyond Good and Evil

One of the reasons that the Lord of the Rings trilogy is so popular is the epic evil vs. good struggle. In real life, people attempt every day to reduce others to these polarized definitions of evil people and evil acts, and good people and good acts, and the varying levels of success that they have in acquiring the buy-in for these definitions seem to inform the way these individuals live their lives and leaders run their countries.

From my personal point of view, the US is not an evil country, but is a place from which many evil acts are performed and because of this I am mostly not proud to "be an American." I said as much to some fellow servers and my head was figuratively ripped off. So here I am, with no figurative head, speaking without a figurative voice, and still I maintain my opinion.