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I think sometimes my nose is pulled so high into the air that I am a skyscraper that my ears hear only Birds that my skin feels only wind but my ears that is not what they hear they hear “hey baby” **** girl...” “What u doin all alone” my skin- feels their hands feels their selfish - dominance their greed, for my, body so my nose, goes higher up. while my heart, sinks further down I cannot ignore their words, or rather, I should not ignore their words for my own protection because that makes me feisty makes me unattractive makes me stingy to withhold myself from their, greedy, hands so I must respond or at least acknowledge be confident be ignorant pretend you didn't know it was anything more than a compliment flash them a smile continue walking and Oh... don't forget to say thank you.
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Apr 15, 2018
Apr 15, 2018 at 10:59 PM UTC
thank you.
I think sometimes my nose is pulled so high into the air that I am a skyscraper that my ears hear only Birds that my skin feels only wind but my ears that is not what they hear they hear “hey baby” **** girl...” “What u doin all alone” my skin- feels their hands feels their selfish - dominance their greed, for my, body so my nose, goes higher up. while my heart, sinks further down I cannot ignore their words, or rather, I should not ignore their words for my own protection because that makes me feisty makes me unattractive makes me stingy to withhold myself from their, greedy, hands so I must respond or at least acknowledge be confident be ignorant pretend you didn't know it was anything more than a compliment flash them a smile continue walking and Oh... don't forget to say thank you.
this isn't to say everyone on the streets makes me feel this way, or that there aren't kind/appropriate ways to deliver genuine compliments. It's just to express what I just began to understand about myself to be my second nature.
#catcall#thanks#thankyou#ignore#heybaby#objectified#feelings
bellabutton
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bellabutton
19/F/USA
Apr 15, 2018
Apr 15, 2018 at 10:59 PM UTC
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