Share this postMarrying Someone like Youhannahdiaz.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOtherMarrying Someone like YouA poem about circumstance Hannah DiazMay 26, 20233Share this postMarrying Someone like Youhannahdiaz.substack.comCopy linkFacebookEmailNoteOther1ShareMarrying Someone like YouI was just thinkingwhat would have happened if you had a girl instead of a boy.when the baby came, when I heard it was a boy,I thought well, of coursethere was no other way, even fate doesn’t havesuch a sick twisted sense as to give you a girl.you needed a boy—a girl would have turned your life right side up. a boy was much safer,you could just keep on.but if he was a she than I would no longer be a woman with a cunt,but a girl with a father.instead of wanting to,needing to, reach touchgrab holdyou’d suddenly standfive paces away.In my eyes you’d see her untouched tomorrowthat would one day be lost tooand it couldn’t be by the hands of you.& if he was a she than you would look at me and rage at my choices, how could I beso foolish, so naive, so shortsightedthat today I could not see the failure of yesterdayleaking into tomorrow. I wonder if you ever thinkif he had been a sheone that looks less like you and more like her—you could finally see her yesterday too.her foolish, her naive, short sighted decision ofmarrying someone like you.SubscribeSharePreviousNext
I’ll have to read that more than once