about me
my sister and i were talking last night about making friends. i told her i swore i was never going to make a new friend so long as i live because i already have a handful and that’s sufficient and i’m sick of the whole process. you know. first you lie to each other to get the other person to like you. not crazy fabrications. just embellishments. to make your life seem neat and pretty and cool. and then you hang out more and start making jokes. and then you stop lying and actually start explaining yourself. and then you sort of alternate between making jokes and having serious and meaningful conversations. and then one day you’re gone. one or both of you. maybe physically. maybe emotionally. gone. yeah, so i’m not doing that anymore.
but! in lieu of that, i decided to have lots and lots of acquaintances. and i’m trying to come up with a sort of resume for them. like, this is maura p. in a nutshell.
do you remember those surveys we used to chain email each other in middle school? they always had stupid questions like “what’s your favorite color?” and then some tricky one at the bottom like “if you could go on a date with any of these recipients who would it be and why and is there anything else you would like to tell that person for instance how you thought up your children’s names and wrote them in your diary?”
so. song lyric that best describes maura p.
her profession’s her religion. her sin is her lifelessness.