NaPoWriMo 12/30 - The Thing I Should Have Said Yes to + Day 13 Prompt!
The Thing I Should Have Said Yes to
You’ll want me to sayit was when you saidcome on – let’s get marriedtomorrowwe’ll go to City Hallwe can move to Maineand live in the woodsand have two little kids
That was a good solid no.I didn’t want to live in the woodsbirth two little kids while you were painting my futureinto a corner
Surely this would’ve endedwith my head in an oven.
You hated kidsanyway. I wasn’t leavingNYC. Not yet, not then.
Maybe it was the timethe incredibly arrogant white man saidDON’T YOU WANT TO WORK FOR THE BEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD?
Well, yeah, but not as a serfprevented from even thinking about advancement and also working for acomplete NARCISSIST.
It wasn’t the best company in the world. It was alright.That was a good no.
A lot of these types of thingsdon’t require yesses. They declaim and expect acquiescencebut no.
No.
Oftenwhat is requiredis for you to ask the questionof yourselfask it for themlet them off the hookgive them a way to wrangle outor feel as though they were coerced
I’m not so good with that, either.Those are noes. It's possibleI could have used more of them.
In hindsightthere is perhapsnothing I should have said yes tothat I didn’t.
Except maybethat little clickin the guttold methis time do the wrong thingdo the wrong thing righttrust me.
12/30NaPoWriMo2014
DAY 13 PROMPT: The War of Where Things Go
You’ll want me to sayit was when you saidcome on – let’s get marriedtomorrowwe’ll go to City Hallwe can move to Maineand live in the woodsand have two little kids
That was a good solid no.I didn’t want to live in the woodsbirth two little kids while you were painting my futureinto a corner
Surely this would’ve endedwith my head in an oven.
You hated kidsanyway. I wasn’t leavingNYC. Not yet, not then.
Maybe it was the timethe incredibly arrogant white man saidDON’T YOU WANT TO WORK FOR THE BEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD?
Well, yeah, but not as a serfprevented from even thinking about advancement and also working for acomplete NARCISSIST.
It wasn’t the best company in the world. It was alright.That was a good no.
A lot of these types of thingsdon’t require yesses. They declaim and expect acquiescencebut no.
No.
Oftenwhat is requiredis for you to ask the questionof yourselfask it for themlet them off the hookgive them a way to wrangle outor feel as though they were coerced
I’m not so good with that, either.Those are noes. It's possibleI could have used more of them.
In hindsightthere is perhapsnothing I should have said yes tothat I didn’t.
Except maybethat little clickin the guttold methis time do the wrong thingdo the wrong thing righttrust me.
12/30NaPoWriMo2014
DAY 13 PROMPT: The War of Where Things Go
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