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clevermanka ([personal profile] clevermanka) wrote2014-02-21 03:34 pm
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“What To Do When Your Boyfriend’s Asshole Best Friend Says, “Hey, Never Trust Anything That Bleeds For Seven Days And Doesn’t Die, Right?” OR The Only Poem I’ll Ever Write About Periods.

Don’t excuse him because he’s had
at least three lite beers
and is sweating through his black button down
that his mom or exgirlfriend
probably bought him.
Don’t excuse him because he’s been turned down
by the last six girls he went on dates with
after meeting them on tindr
with a picture that’s seven years old
Don’t excuse him because
he’s usually such a nice guy
because you don’t want to be a bitch
because you don’t want to cause a scene
because when you were seventeen
your sister told you
no one likes an angry feminist

Tell him,
Hey, Asshole:
Let me explain something to you.
Every goddamn motherfucking month since I was eleven,
a part of me
tore itself to shreds
ripped itself apart inside me
and then remade itself.

So yes, I bleed for seven days
and I don’t die
You know what else can do that?
Gods.
Immortal beings.
Things of legend.
Fuck, I can even
create life.

So I say, never trust anything that can’t
bleed for seven days and not die.
You know what that makes it?
Weak
Fallible
Mortal.
So let’s see, hon,
What you’re made of.
If you can bleed for seven days
and not die.

Rip out his jugular with your teeth.
And when he bleeds for seven seconds
and dies,
spit on his corpse and say,
I thought not.

— Katherine Tucker

[identity profile] hdsqrl.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
My thoughts, in the order they came:

Oh, Ugh, NO. Hell no.
Hell YES.
Damn.
Wait, no - HELL YES!!!
BOOOYAAAHHHHHHHHHHH.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
This poem is the fucking BEST.

[identity profile] sherwood21.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
THIS IS THE BEST POEM I HAVE EVER READ.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Ain't it just?!?!?

XD

[identity profile] kadynce.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
That.. that's.....wow. That girl is pretty awesome. Too bad that guy is her boyfriend's best friend! So glad I don't have that problem. HAHA

Hey, you're pretty neat, would it be ok if I added you to my friends? ^_^ I'm new and looking for friends that are fairly active.

Re: XD

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sure! Good to meet you!

Re: XD

[identity profile] kadynce.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yayayyy thanks~ :D You too!

[identity profile] kazoogrrl.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for posting that, I sent it to a friend who really needed to read something like that right now.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, good! So happy to know this is being shared with others who need it.

[identity profile] gansje.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That is just amazing, and should be read aloud at every poetry slam ever. YES!

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Doesn't make me feel good about having to deal with my cycle, but it does make me feel tough.

[identity profile] apocalypticbob.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Hell yes!!

I mean, I hate my period with the fire of a thousand fucking suns, but you know what I hate even more than that?

Douchebros who say twatwaffle things about body parts they don't have and don't truly understand.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
PREACH, gurl.

[identity profile] chronovore.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy shit. I normally skip poetry, esp. on LJ, but I made an exception because: you, and that rant's pretty glorious.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm honored!

Image

[identity profile] msmitti.livejournal.com 2014-02-21 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
OMIGOD LOVE.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-22 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
YES

[identity profile] redheadfae.livejournal.com 2014-02-22 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
a part of me
tore itself to shreds
ripped itself apart inside me
and then remade itself.


Well.
I never thought of it that way.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-22 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
I think I've thought of it that way, but I never put it into such amazing words!

[identity profile] redheadfae.livejournal.com 2014-02-22 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Haha! I think I've just been blessed with the easiest periods in the world. Nothing that ever felt like being ripped apart.. just annoying, inconvenient and often unexpectedly flow.
But now... emotionally? Yeh, well.

[identity profile] theoneinblue.livejournal.com 2014-02-22 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, yisssss. This.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-22 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes indeed.

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2014-02-24 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Kick ass.

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-24 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep.

[identity profile] carmy-w.livejournal.com 2014-02-25 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Please, pleasepleasePLEASE tell me you reblogged this, so I can go find it on your tumblr??

[identity profile] clevermanka.livejournal.com 2014-02-25 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep! Here you go, bb (http://clevermanka.tumblr.com/post/77410759577/what-to-do-when-your-boyfriends-asshole-best).