Friday, August 15, 2025

I shoulda BEEN SLEEP 
goodnight ☄️
SWEETHEART πŸ’‹ I LOVE you VERY much 
πŸ«ΆπŸ«ΆπŸ«ΆπŸ‘ΎπŸ«šπŸ€πŸ”₯🫢🫢🫢

it was really great
❤️

layers
of great

I spent years in school
trying to argue the
CASE
that although three of us were elizabeths 
beth and lisa 
preferred THOSE names
leaving me FREE to go by the name I preferred 

the ONLY thing 
ANYBODY 
CALLED me 

I mean my dad called me 
GRACE
when I fell down or ran into things
SARAH
when he felt I was being dramatic 

but he didn't call me those things as nicknames 

NO NO, they'd say
it wouldn't be FAIR 

YOU 
MUST
be liz 

& if there was ALREADY a liz 

you'd think 
BUT 
you'd be 
WRONG 

THEN
I became liz b.

SO
my WHOLE life 
I'm LIKE 
DON'T 
call 
me 
LIZ


& I ONLY got it right 
the FIRST time 

if you can't call me by my name
CALL me ROSE*


*at summer glassel children's art class