Polaroid Stories/ SKINHEADgirl/ Naomi Iizuka
fuck-fuckfuckfuck- i can’t believe this, i can’t believe this shit- i don’t care, i aint scared, cause i’m like this princess in this fairy tale, this fuckin rad-ass fairy tale and i don’t get scared ever, cause the princess always lands on her feet, she always ends up ok in the end, for real, yeah, she does.
once upon a time, once upon a time, once upon a time, this princess she falls in love with this guy named roger, cause roger, he was like her first love, man, roger was her knight in shining armor, he was her prince, and they woulda lived happily ever after, too, cept, that roger, roger turned out to be this total headbanger freakazoid freak, listening to deep purple in his mommas basement all day long, full of bullshit about the end of the world. loved to smoke weed. roger was a pig for weed- man, she ended up hating that guy. on the road, the princess met up with chilly, and the princess, she kinda liked chilly - she got chilly willy tattooed on her in honor of him. on her ankle, little, tiny, chilly willy, cost her forty bucks too. chilly was sweet, but he had real bad teeth. his teeth, they were all blue. she said to him, chilly, man, why are your teeth blue? what kind of freak are you to be having blue teeth? later she found out chilly was drinking bleach for the buzz - not enough to kill him, just enough to turn his teeth blue. later they all fell out, every single one. guy was nineteen and not a tooth in his head. the princess left chilly on account of the teeth thing, cause the teeth thing, that was just way too deep.Â
after that, the princess met jesus. she met him hitching back from wisconsin. she gave him shit on account of that name. she said to him, no white guy is named jesus, not for real, but she like him, she really did. he was tall and he had long arms he could wrap around her, and he smelled like peppermint, and the princess, she thought he was like the real deal, until the night he dropped her off, and left without a word, and then she realized jesus probably wasn't even his real name, and he was just another loser like everybody else she ever knew, and she was so deep in the shit this time, there wasn’t nobody going to be able to bail her out, cause she was shit out of luck, she was truly fucked- no hold up, that aint how it goes, that aint it - fuck fuck.Â
once upon a time, speed racer, he comes along from straight out of nowhere, and he rescues her, and they live happily every after, and all that - fuck, never mind, that ain’t it, that aint how it goes. and after a while, the princess, she just stops i just stop, and it’s like i’ve been here all my life and i begin to feel someplace of something, something big as the whole night sky, heavy and full, like how the air gets right before a storm, all electric-like, closing in on me, darkness all-around me, and inside the dark, inside the inside, i see all these lights, like stars in some far off galaxy, and i’m thinking to myself, how beautiful they are and i’m so close i can almost touch them so close, i can’t even tell where i stop and where they begin --
