I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anaïs Nin
AND who knows when to be still and give me space when I…
- really need to make a point,
-succumb to a hormonal imbalance,
-road rage,
-moisturize, analyze and reconstitute,
-withdraw from the world,
-caffeine-jitter,
-babble incomprehensibly,
-sing in the shower,
-squeeze out a third orgasm,
-pretend I’m not watching The View,
-Cuban-temper-freak-out over something retarded Sarah Palin said,
-make out with my Blackberry
-dance to no music,
-say retarded,
-read my book,
-put on my lipstick,
-drink my wine,
-drink my beer,
-drink my Patron,
- act all intellectual when I’m actually just drunk
-air guitar to the Killers,
- clear my mind in tree pose,
-kiss you on the neck,
-am Being my true self.