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Traveling

Would we have been friends in another life?  
Some semblance of sisterhood  
The Snow Whites and the Rose Reds  
ganging up on the Sleeping Beauties  
The brambles  
The towers  
Secret manicured handshakes with pink sparkly-nailed  
middle fingers,  
ring fingers,  
free  
Sipping our shots from silver thimbles,  
all sorority-like  
I bet you were a Girl Scout  
I played basketball and always sank the  
foul shots  
Interpret as you will  

If life provides the same bitter pill,  
why do you keep swallowing?  
Some female friendships have a thirteen year  
shelf life  
Then it’s time to dust  
Stomp spiders or  
hurt no living thing?  

I imagine it’s hard for the World’s Oldest Living  
Female Exterminator when Mars goes retrograde  
She just weeps whist holding her tattered copy of  
Charlotte’s Web, and  
contemplates her existence
Written by DeadEyesStarlight
Published | Edited 13th Mar 2018
Author's Note
My former best friend and I ended our friendship bitterly after thirteen years. We were very different people. The other day, I realized that my current best friend and I have now known each other the exact length of time. 13 years. Yet our friendship is one of the greatest joys of my life, and we often ask each other, "Where were you when I was younger?" I think about Tori Amos discussing "Cornflake Girls" and "Raisin Girls"...I was never a Cornflake Girl, and neither is my best friend. Yet I see so many, and I wonder, "Would I ever be able to be friends with this woman?" Because kindness is not friendship. I can be kind, but so few do I hold close.
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