Nice Girl Jersey Retirement Party: Forgetting the Past
Heather has a Bachelor's Degree in English from Moravian College and has been freelance writing for more than 12 years.
Put away the routine life sentence uniform forever
Set it ablaze after being stifled too much by the collar
Started over with a newer, more overheated demeanor
Created a new brew of the darkest beer ever prepared
Almost too toxic to pick up and drink
It'll burn your mouth and your throat in the process
Full of bitter almonds with a strong lemon aftertaste
Could have been a bad batch or mixed wrong
Hard to say but this concoction was rotten to core
Marinated with an impossibly thorny level of rage
Partially a chemical imbalance compounded by
A little bit of a hole in the secretive airspace
Co-Opted by Warren Buffett and Richard Branson
Polluted by a very dangerous emotional sliding scale
Ready to let the world known that this former good girl
No longer wanted to play well with others
Especially if they kept getting locked in the burn ward repeatedly
Put their hands to the fire once too many
Helped out others only to get thrown into an inferno
Left battered and burned beyond recognition
Wondered if it was time to lead the charge of the ruthless
Step on the ones who usually do the stepping
Gave them a taste of their own medicine
Veered towards a considerably rash impulsive streak
Casey picked up that perpetual troublemaking Louisville Slugger
To cause some serious property damage and then some
Just like Lemonade era Beyoncé did in one of her music videos
And went completely medieval on a Lincoln MKZ
That belonged to the neighbor that stole her parking spot
One too many times in the last month
Minor infraction that added up after being belittled far too long
Went far too out of the way in random acts of kindness
Only to be drop kicked to the ground and stepped on
By a pair of tradition black and white Converse sneakers
A moment of stress relieving vandalism that led to something more
A short stint in jail and a rather high fine to pay off that moment of relief
Best to confront your social demons before blowing your top
Like a Tasmanian Devil who listened to AC/DC too much growing up
Took a major step back and realized baseball bats weren't good idea
Time to take a much more subtle approach to dealing with it
Put some black ink to a piece of paper to address the issue
Wrote it all down and forgot about it
Red hot chili pepper of a temper turned down a relaxed 68 degrees
Better to choose a second impulse rather than the first
No need to spend time in jail; unless it was justified
In this case, it definitely was not.
Planned to make my secret recipe ultra-private
Only for the eyes of people worthy of its coveted contents
Let's see how it goes with keeping everything close to the vest
True test of the meddle of others if they're well-intentioned or not
Only time will reveal if it's possibly the case.