Will you stand up for injustice?

 

Life goal

I don't know how many times my mom urged me to 

"get a real job," "have some wages,"

so I "won't be dependent on Raj," 

and "can buy whatever I want but not beg the others."

I was like -  LOL? LOL!

Do I look like someone who could work 8 hours per day for some capitalist corporation?

Do I look like someone with the word "beg" existing in her vocabulary?

I idle around, reading whatever I want to read,

buying whatever I want to buy, and saying whatever I want to say --

isn't this the ultimate goal of life for most people?

Why do I ever want to lower myself into this rotten, filthy world

with patriarchal and only patriarchal standards,

willingly shed my creativity and spirituality, 

and metamorphose into a brick in the wall?

I could have chosen to not be a victim by

not giving in to monogamous marriage and childbearing.

But I was young and stupid, and I couldn't do this to my parents.

Now, with my weakened bones, whitened hair, and wrinkled face,

think I would ever want to enslave myself to someone (other than my own husband) 

and "earn a fucking wage"?

Ha! The funniest joke I've heard for days.

I tell Raj, "If I don't spend your money, well, rightfully mine, now,

in a few years, say we part ways, it will never be mine anymore!

What, I help you save it for your future young wife? LOL!"