Everyone Who Knows Me Thinks I'm A

To Me Punk Rock Is Thinking Outside Of The Box, Outside Of The Program, Outside The Establishment.

A Lot Of People Are Just Really Confused By Me; They Don’t Know What To Think Of Me, So They Try To Compartmentalize Me Or Diminish Me. Maybe They Just Feel Unsafe. But Any Time You Have An Overtly Emotional Or Irrational, Negative Reaction To Something, You’re Fearing Something That It’s Bringing Up In You.

I Always Wished That I Could Find Someone As Beautiful As You, But In The Process I Forgot That I Was Special Too.

Trying To Be A Professional Dancer, Paying My Rent By Posing Nude For Art Classes, Staring At People Staring At Me Naked. Daring Them To Think Of Me As Anything But A Form They Were Trying To Capture With Their Pencils And Charcoal. I Was Defiant. Hell-bent On Surviving. On Making It. But It Was Hard And It Was Lonely, And I Had To Dare Myself Every Day To Keep Going.

Catholicism Is Not A Soothing Religion. It's A Painful Religion. We're All Gluttons For Punishment.