To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

did the dinosaurs look at the meteor and think "how pretty"?

if i were a mouse id lay there in that trap not completely dead but doomed. nibbling on the morsel of cheese while i wait for the perpetrators to come collect me.

could you imagine being an inhuman thing? could you imagine being holed up because the sight of you sends heads spinning on a bewildered axis? Their eyes boggling out of their heads? Their mouths agape like horrible, sickening fish? Their hands, clawed and wet from the beading of cold, slimy sweat at their palms, clutching at their bags, their itchy clothes? Sharp teeth bare behind thin, curled lips in a grimace? Mothers shield the eyes of their dearly beloved, chubby, sticky offspring? Grating, hushed whispers echo through the wondrous caverns of your mind, and you wish you could understand their inharmonious grumbling.

You said your favorite Disney Princess was Mulan.

I remember it through a kind of fuzzy static,

The damp night air and the pounding of my calves as we waited in the line for the boat ride,

And I don't remember who asked the question first,

About which Disney Princess was our favorite,

But I said some silly answer,

Like Cinderella or Aurora,

And you said you liked Mulan.

I had never seen Mulan.

I don't think I ever even watched Snow White or Sleeping Beauty in full,

I knew who she was, of course,

A pretty girl with short hair,

She seemed sweet enough,

And I asked you why you liked her.

You said because she was actually strong.

Not like the other princesses,

Who waited for some man to come and save her,

Up in their towers and miserable in their homes,

No,

Mulan saved her country,

Just because she wanted to.

She was independent.

I felt stupid for not considering someone as important,

As different,

As special,

As her.

You explained to me,

And I wanted her to be my favorite too,

And in that,

Though it wasn't your intention,

I thought the other girls who liked the other princesses,

were in the wrong as well.

Mulan was never my favorite.

But she was yours.

the one with the william blake poem... one of my favorites actually!! im obsessed ♡

I love people sometimes

(Collection of Dream Tigers)