If you're looking for "I Spys," dating or LTRs, this is your scene.
View ProfilesPublished October 3, 2024 at 12:44 p.m.
Isn’t it annoying, how you can read allIn"Shit I Can Do Now That I'm Invisible" McCadden examines, in a humorous voice, how her life changed in her fifties once society no longer viewed her as a sex object — or as anything useful, for that matter:
you want about the past, but not go there?
Collect whatever you want from back then,
whenever, put it on a shelf. You can even
decide you like a time period, hit up eBay
or Craigslist, and in no time you can have
almost whatever you want. That’s it, though.
Like you can’t go hang out and get to know
your Neanderthal forebears, the 2% of you
that, supposedly, makes it difficult for you
to get rid of the things you don’t need.
I take boxes of Cheez-Its off the shelfTime also rears its head in McCadden's latest obsession, Neanderthals, which, she explained, was inspired by a research trip to France last spring. Hence her reference, in "Time," to the 2 percent of human DNA that is attributable to our prehistoric forebears.
and just start eating them, knock more boxes
to the floor and keep walking, workers
outraged—What the…who did that?
I put my mouth to the kombucha tap
next to the check-out lines at Market 32
and hit the handle and drink. I cut in lines
at stores, at airports. I stow away on planes,
find a seat and don’t ask for anything,
snooze before liftoff. I nap in exam rooms
in hospitals, jaywalk in cities, take what I want
in malls, wag my titties around, no problem.
I email my grievances, forget the compliment
sandwich, let it rip like I fart in company,
everyone looking at everyone else.
You all can hide behind your potted plants,
but I—I can hide in plain sight!
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