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Chances are if you are reading this you already know me and have therefore formed an opinion of me. For now though, I'm Nicole. Things about me: perpetually stuck in college because I hardly care and have screwed up one too many times, I have an unusual view of the world (everyone says that though don't they?) because I am simultaneously optimistic and pessimistic (I seem to save the optimism for others) I am bitter and angry and rather unstable. I'm 23, though I feel 53 (and sometimes just 3). Currently and always pretty much broke. Oh yeah, and the majority of people: assholes of the grandest kind.

I have another lj, xorcia. I lock it, but if you are interested in my sparse updates and not-great writing. I'd love the help and encouragement to write more.

Also, I like this poem:

Barbie Doll

This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.
Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:
You have a great big nose and fat legs.

She was healthy, tested intelligent,
possessed strong arms and back,
abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.
She went to and fro apologizing-
Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.

She was advised to play coy,
exhorted to come on hearty,
exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.
Her good nature wore put
like a fan belt.
So she cut off her nose and her legs
and offered them up.

In the casket displayed on satin she lay
with the undertaker’s cosmetics painted on,
a turned-up putty nose,
dressed in a pink and white nightie.
Doesn’t she look pretty? everyone said.
Consummation at last.
To every woman a happy ending.

-Marge Piercy


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