“My love making is my legacy.” Lana Del Rey
Read that in a social media post by Courtney Love, who once sang “I am not a feminist”
and then screamed “FUCK YOU!”
Ten years of my life or more ring true to Ms Del Rey’s sentiment
Likely more
There are men still in my life probably because of it
Not because I was some
kindred spirit
Being a mother is an achievement, but how do you define success there?
You don’t know until they’re grown and thriving and you can’t take credit for all of it
so you don’t get to self venerate
Work is work for me, not a career path
No big gains there
No writing awards
No performing awards
No big paychecks
Nope
But the fucking
I’d say I was a thoroughbred
I had the hips for it
No legend
But I could contend
What do you do with that kind of experience and conditioning?
Write a weirdly spaced ode about it in a blog where no one but bots pays attention