Someone told me comfortable doesn't exist when I was small, and I believe them until 6 years ago
Someone told me dust is mostly skin cells, and I wondered how there would be any of us left if that was true, but it's true, and there's so much of us left so much, almost too much.
Someone told me the puddles with rainbows floating on top from gasoline, was the blood of the things that come out at night and get fought off before the morning, it's a lie, but I still think about it when I have to leave the house at night
Someone told me a screwdriver was a tool, a drink and also a way to put a girl in the ground, asked if I wanted to see an example of each
Someone told me hot is worse than cold, but I'll never know because I've only ever reached warm; mostly cold, never got
Someone told me envy is slippery and goes right out of your hands you can't cover it and everyone will see it, and I should have believed them instead of learning that the hard way
Someone told me a lot of fathers leave more often than mothers because they don't believe in instinct and are too needy to give love to anything else - my grandmother sent me my father's number last week because he doesn't want to be the one to call me.