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The Talia and the Harley

December 17, 2022
By Anonymous

Talia was graceful and knew her self-worth.

Harley was fast and somehow always escaped giving birth.

The boys worshipped Harley, she knew how to have fun.

Lana? Not so much. “She was dang near a nun.”


Harley hated Talia she thought she was a prude.

Harley always badmouthed her. Isn’t that rude?


Years had passed and so had Harley.

HIV had taken her life, faster than a wild animal who was snarly.

Talia had found a man who loved God as much as her.

She’d finally found real love. He loved her for sure.


Harley moved fastly, had no class, and was a thing of the past. 

Talia moved slowly, didn’t put on a show, and rose to the top like some bread or dough.


The author's comments:

A good friend of mine grew up around an immensely religious family who constantly lectured her on how to live. They would manipulate her into living for them rather than living her own life. One of the biggest things they implemented in her brain was the idea that no man would marry her if she were a "wh*re," only if she saved herself for marriage. So, I took their concept and allegorized The Tortoise and the Hare to share the way they gaslite her.


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