How to be a Lady (or Gentleman or Angel)

 How to be a lady 

 

Learn your stripes

 

Privileged people are only worth something to the people if they are organized and polite.

They don't have to be fancy, or ambitiously good.

Be a hollow bone (as the saying goes). 

 

 

Learning How to be a

 Learning how to be a host to myself.

I can't control everything, but making the bed would be nice. 

She Dances

 in the shadow of the church

sour words

sharp words

a badger caught in headlights

somehow made it here

to glitter in the sunlight

to pose, arrogant

maybe get drunk on the weekend

find a filly

you studied all through Utrecht

Hold my hand, there is still a tradition.

behind the train sometimes

it is on my breath. The Dakota

on whoze territory I was born say

ain't nothing wrong with these ancestors. 

Papa Died

 It was around the time he got sick, two years ago

That I knew myself safe for the first time in my life, you guys

It's still waiting to figure out what that means

No time for the gossips, the ceremonialists, the "good people".

searching

 Searching through a haystack of libertines to find a one that isn't a sadist at the end.

It Won't

 You think pretending you're superior will solve all your colonial wounds?

Gramma

 You wouldn't have guessed that Grandma was cool

Bound her breasts and listened to swing music

Later so allergic to us hippies

Covering the furniture in plastic

What does this mean? It must mean something

Still figuring out the large lines of History

A Tibetan sand painting that may blow away soon.