Dear Domestic Violet ~
You seem to be real touchy
and all this DRAMA from being the wrong Man's wife
Why, I never hit mine more than once or twice
a month - you can ask the boys at the
bar !
an' she never went on about it
like you girls do
You all should all take up knitting instead !
signed ~
Elmer Fudputz ###########
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Dearest Dearest Elmer ~
Your insensitivity
does not equal that
somehow I am " too sensitive "
when I react to " lack of sensitivity "
the way a sane person would
It simply means you are brutish
like most humans still are
and it is just another way
we
squelch and stifle in others
the emotional life that is
OUR humanity !
With labels and tags and
categorical pigeon-holing
and SHOULD - ing
all over the place
we " walk off " our broken
legs
insisting others should too
with less and less human - ness
these days
My favorite is when you tell a bully
" please stop- that hurts ! "
more often than not you'll hear
" you shouldn't feel that way or be hurt by that -
what's wrong with you ! " and
" you're OVER - REACTING - Drama Queen ! "
and the really crass ones will
call you a "pussy" if you don't want to
take shit from them
Life ~
is an on- going drama- filled
never- ending saga so
what are we talking about !
How is that YOUR drama isn't DRAMA
but mine is ?
See how you are ?
And I should feel nothing when your
rudeness that you deny
flings mud in my eye ?
The punishment for mentioning it
never fits the crime of
mentioning it
and who took the first swing anyhow ?
It is generally issued by cowards who
can't take what they dish out
like the CREEP in " DIRTY HARRY "
and they have a place in their minds
called EXCEPTIONS where somehow
they put ' their own stuff ' creatively
artfully dodging reality
Emotional runners
they flee
fast and hard
from the real of emotional feel
and will not permit
others in their midst
to have an emotional life as well
It is reserved for the bully only
whose mission is to ' get '
before being ' gotten '
spreading rotten
all over the place and
somehow quite PROUDLY !!!!
Pardon me for noticing
and for saying so as well
I'm sure you have some DRAMATIC
opinion of
what I have to tell
but don't be so " sensitive "
or are you a pussy too ?
( and it's especially crude when a
woman puts this tag on you )
Perhaps you'd like it better if
DOMESTIC VIOLET and the FLOWER Girls
was about Domesticity like
cleaning the house or
trading recipes
or what the neighbors are up to
instead
you know - that safe and
non-emotional impersonal stuff
If that's what you're looking for
you found the wrong post
got the wrong girls
crashed the party of the wrong
hostesses ~
There's no need for embellishment
the truth is ugly or lovely enough
Run away if you must
like most of you do
but as you go
if you can
be grateful for every second
that truly horrendous is not
happening to you!!!!!!!!!!!
Count the thousand things
that went right today
and don't be afraid of your
" Power Greater than Yourself " - given
emotions
It is your greatest part
and what separates US
from the Antelope and Aardvark
and THEY show more
heart than we
You don't see them killing for sport
and at last report
they are not responsible for Pollution
and Global Warming
and they are not imprisoned by their society
for beating or killing their mates
destroying
community ~
These are some of the DRAMAS
inherent in this drama of life
that I like to talk about
and the FLOWER Girls do too
Were we being Drama Queens
when being beaten by a man ???
Or was that you . . .
Dear Domestic Violet
Semper Vi ~
Survivor . . . from the VORTEX