How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

by Angie Cruz

I did it because I wanted to change my life. That’s what we have to do. We step in the shit on purpose so we’re forced to buy new shoes. You know what I’m saying?

morirsonando.com

Porque?

die dreaming.

Morir soñando

don’t need people saying to me that everything will be OK. Of course I’ll be OK. What other choice do I have? Who has the luxury of having someone to take care of them?

dique

Supposedly

If we, who have been in this building for decades, rent our apartments to other people, it’s dique illegal, but these new people that pay double the price make this building like a motel.

Desahogar: to undrown, to cry until you don’t need to cry no more.

You’re drowning in a glass of water.

Not Lulú. She understood that I had to cry until I undrowned from the inside.

Sin senos no hay paraíso.

Lol this is a real show???

For sure, selling drugs would send him to jail. But those men from the banks who ruined everybody’s lives and made people lose their houses—

nobody is locking them up.

and the new lease says No Washing Machine. The management sent a letter to Tita many months ago to say that if she didn’t take out the machine in ten days she and her daughter Cecilia must leave the apartment because she violated the lease!

Wtf

This is why men don’t change. When the women try to teach a man a lesson, here come the mothers and the sisters to save them.

tranqué.

Closed up?

Now I see I could have been more gentle with him. I didn’t understand this before he left.

you have to be gentle with your children, or you can lose them forever.

It will not be easy to say I am American, because when someone says American they don’t imagine me. Why? You know why? Because I have an accent. I look dominicana.

we must not wait to live the life we want. Find a way to be present with the people you love.