You'd Look Better as a Ghost

by Joanna Wallace

A society that allows us to destroy our pets as soon as they start shitting indoors but demands that humans be kept alive at any cost. A society that pretends to care about dignity and quality of life but no longer understands the meaning of either.

Utterly spellbound, I’m beginning to realize I’ve never given grief the respect it deserves. Drawing no distinction between strong, weak, rich or poor, it plows through everyone’s lives the same, leaving identical mounds of emotional debris behind.

The image repulses me. It’s never OK for a grown woman to wear a headband.

But life isn’t a film and in the real world people listen carefully to rhetoric but are rarely persuaded to change their minds.