Back, back, back. How fucking far back do you go? She wanted to make up for all her mistakes through me. One night there was something in my pants, like, blood. My mom said, "Oh, hell. Your period." "This is where all the trouble starts." She was right. No number, no letters. Just gone.
I wrote to "Seventeen" magazine. A long letter about us. They wanted to publish it as an article, but kept asking: "Your dad going away - does he come back? Does it have a happy ending?" In reality it didn't, but I thought: "What the hell?
I've always helped my mother pick up boyfriends. The only one I never got a say in was the one that mattered. - My dad.
They thought I was strange, so they made me feel like a stranger. Throwing me into plays, spelling bees, studying, writing, museums, concerts and even more writing.
If only my life could be more like the movies. I want an angel to swoop down to me like he does to Jimmy Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life" and talk me out of suicide.
"Come here, baby." He's inside of me where no one else has been, in my dark and secret place.
Dr. Sterling is my dealer. Seems like everyone's doctor is dealing this stuff now.
Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation and it's fucked up, but it's me
fights, anger, guilt, Rafe, suicidal thoughts all of that was part of some slow recovery process.
And I see myself becoming this person who does the right thing, who says the right thing
studying, writing, museums, concerts and even more writing.
I'm on medication, That's the whole point, isn't it?
see how dire the situation is everything's just being covered up I want him not to exist.
But I can't be this person without taking pills
I mean, let's face it... The United States of Depression.