amphetamines
you are my favorite drug.
you are my fairy godmother, and
i am your bleach blonde cinderella. cinders ella, cinderella,
who doesn't
want to be
a scullery maid,
who wants to be
pretty and thin and sociable at the
ball.
Who wants to
dance with the prince.
Who says such wonderful things.
Who wants to get
all her homework done. but the
spell ends at midnight. it ends and
i am dirty
again with
no way to get
home. my golden carriage is
a pumpkin, my
white stallions are mice, my coachman is
a lizard. But
where does the
glass slipper fit in? What is left behind besides
a trail littered with
exhaustion and
tears and bitterness and grief and bruises and cuts and screams for god-only-knows-what? Besides
poetry? Besides
bad metaphors? Beides some completed assignments and small chunks of euphoria? and what prince charming would follow that? but this isn't even about men.
we call it "amphetamine" with an
A, because that's what
we cinderellas
want.
we want A+es.
we want amplitude and assurance and ambition and assertiveness and artistry and animation and airiness, because those are the things amphetamines give
us. But the
clock strikes midnight and
there are
no more balls.
There is
no prince. And going
back to scrubbing the floor is drearier than it was before, because now
we know that the dirt is
all around and
no matter
how clean we are it'll just keep coming
back.