[My Photobooth Pictures Age 5-21]
I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez
1. The age I grew witty
2. The age I built strength
3. The age we buried my father
4. At birth, I took a breath
5. The age of my first struggle
6. When no one seemed to care
7. The age I blew that money
8. The age I cut my hair
9. The age I road the subways
10. The age I snorted coke
11. The age that I got cheated on
12. The age I lived with crooks
13. The age I hated everything
14. When I discovered love
15. The age I learned to cry again
16. The age I knew too much
17. I had no clue at “that age"
18. The age I first heard Funk
19. The age I had a "lifestyle"
20. The age I felt distraught
21. The age she understood me
22. That age I was his fool
23. The age I took to healing
24. Any age before high school
25. I was 9 with posters of aliens, holding peace signs, on my wall
26. At 16 I smoked weed
27. The age I felt alone
28. I felt free before then
29. The age I never slept
30. The age I fasted and prayed
31. That was my favorite age
32. The age of trendy parties
33. The age I was resourceful
34. The age I learned of truth somehow
35. One age was awfully simple
36. The age I learned to chew
37. The age I used my voice
38. The age that I ate tofu
39. The age I had a choice
40. By 6 I had my journals
41. The age that I fought back
42. The age when I came home again
43. At age 18, I left
44.The age I dreamt of traveling
45. I never had much friends
46. The age of Crayola crayon sets
47. The age I went to camp
48. The age of Stevie Wonder (my dad’s “Cherie Amour”)
49. The age that I snuck out the house
50. The age I said, "no more"
51. The age I hoarded books
52. The age I failed those classes
53. The age I paid for school
54. The age when youth became us
55. The age I took things literally
56. The age I cherished my sister
57. These days I don’t have icons
58. That age I’m glad is over
59. The age I wore “weird clothes”
60. The age I joined a gang
61. Those years I worked in retail
62. The first time I got paid
63. The age I drank red Slurpees
64. I jumped on trampolines
65. The age of endless summer nights
66. For years I loved to clean
67. The age I felt rejected
68. The age that taught me how
69. The age of the anomalies
70. Each age I loved No Doubt
71. The age that they adopted me (I was 2 days old)
72. The age I took those pictures
73. The age that I posed nude
74. The age of many conquests
75. 'of Yoga and Thai Chi
76. The age I was promiscuous
77.When psychics talked to me
78. The age I swore I wouldn’t
79. The age I promised I would
80. The age we biked on Lakeshore
81. and dumpster-ed for our food
82. The age I was content
83. At 8, played violin
84. The age of catechisms
85. The age of indie films
86. The age of spiritual insights
87. The age I shared my dance
88. The age of constellations
89. I wore high waisted pants
90. The age of music festivals
91. The age I liked Wu-Tang
92. 22 was my first mosh pit
93. 17 I loved Nick Drake
94. The age I went to Mikonos
95. The ages of incense
96. Racism always puzzled me
97. The age I was a racist
98. The age when I was small
99. The age when I got big
100. The age where I reflected
Each one a life I've lived.
2 comments:
this is really relatable.
clever. i like it.
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