Most people are reading this as two women interacting, and Doc Martens are colloquially thought of as an indicator of lesbian identity. Maybe gender bending is the theme this week?
Actually, there wasn't a theme this week. There usually isn't, but sometimes I do have one. Gender bending is a cool theme though, and I would love to use that idea. It would be very helpful if you could email me (exceptindreamsATgmailDOTcom) some poetry fitting that theme (from published poets).
This is actually so very beautiful in it's own simple little way.
It reminds me a lot of being in foster care. We used to "challenge" our new "parents" in all kinds of ways; putting your feet up at the table is an act of rebellion for a teen.
You expect the parent to tell you not to do that. To start laying down the ground rules. Start off on the foot that your "birth parents" have been drumming into you since day one - that you are useless, and there is something wrong with you.
What's beautiful about this is that the other person simply accepts it.
Even though she feels lost years later, it's actually what the young person rebelling -really- needed. And wanted, even though by rebelling they're "proving" to the world that they don't.
The unspoken communication and the sadness that probably neither party realised the little ritual for what it was and yet somehow worked it out anyway.
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It reminds me a lot of being in foster care. We used to "challenge" our new "parents" in all kinds of ways; putting your feet up at the table is an act of rebellion for a teen.
You expect the parent to tell you not to do that. To start laying down the ground rules. Start off on the foot that your "birth parents" have been drumming into you since day one - that you are useless, and there is something wrong with you.
What's beautiful about this is that the other person simply accepts it.
Even though she feels lost years later, it's actually what the young person rebelling -really- needed. And wanted, even though by rebelling they're "proving" to the world that they don't.
The unspoken communication and the sadness that probably neither party realised the little ritual for what it was and yet somehow worked it out anyway.
I don't know, it just really touched me.
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