2002-07-03
11:14 p.m.

Remember when I was six years old and you were fourteen and I loved you so much because you were my big sister and I thought you walked on water and I followed you around everywhere you went and you let me follow you into that crack house so you could get your junk and that junkee with no teeth and and a needle hanging off his fully exposed penis squished out his cigarette on my arm and threw up on my pink dress and you laughed and called me a midget and left me there in a pile of junkee puke?

I do.

Remember when I was eight and you were sixteen and we were in the three legged race at the family reunion and we won and daddy was giving away the awards at the reunion and he said "and the winner of the three legged race is Patty!" and I said, "but I won too. I was one and a half of the legs" and he told me to stand behind you so that no one could see me because I was a abomination and then I pulled on your pant leg and said, "Patty, can I see the trophy we won?" and you turned around and kicked me in the stomach and I fell down and you said "now stay down, midget!"

I do.

Remember when I was nine and you were seventeen and you took me by the hand and led me upstairs and sat me down on your canopy bed which had rubber sheets because you wouldn't use a toilet between the hours of three p.m. and one p.m. and you sat on the cedar chest and you said "I have to tell you something, Eunice. I'm in love" and I said it was like a fairytale and you were the princess in the fairytale and you said, "and then I'm gonna be your mommy when our daddy marries me," and I started to cry and you laughed and said "Fucking midgets" and then you took a poop on the bed and wiped your ass on the wall and made me clean it up because now you were my mommy and good girls always obey their mommies?

I do.

Remember when I was ten and you were eighteen and I was the flower girl in your wedding and and you and daddy were making out at the reception and I tried to get daddy to dance with me and you said, "he don't dance with no midgets" and then daddy tried to drown me in the punchbowl and you were cheering him on saying "Kill it daddy! Kill it!" and I got red punch all over my yellow dress?

I do.

Remember when I was twelve and you were twenty and I was visiting you for the summer in compliance with the court order and daddy told me I was beautiful and you grabbed a pair of hunting sheers and chopped off all my hair and said "he's mine, midget! Keep your fucking flipper off him! Stay the fuck away from my man!" and then you made me sleep on the dirt floor in the basement and I was with the rats and the fleas from the rats gave me The Plague and you told daddy I got it from the evil spirits because I was evil and daddy said, "Eunice, is that true?" and I said, "Daddy, you can't get the Black Death from evil spirits" and you said I was a liar and you kept me in the basement until I got better because you didn't want the evil spirits upstairs with you and my new brother-nephew and then I started to stink and the city came in to find out what that funk was and they found me and they sent me to the hospital and the CDC said that I had The Plague and if I'd been in the basement much longer I might have died?

I do.

And remember when I was eighteen and you were twenty-six and you were up for murder for the unexplained death of my brother-nephew and you told me that I better tell the cops I had done it because if I didn't you were gonna tell daddy about the time I tried to kill the whole family by undercooking pork and I said it's a sin to lie and you grabbed my hair and pulled my head back and got really close to me and said, "Fine! Cops don't believe midgets anyway!" and you cut me with your knife and left me for dead and ran away and we never saw you again and daddy still cries for you?

I do.

Now listen up, you fingernail fungus! I AM NOT A MIDGET! I'M A DWARF!

OH MY GOD, WHAT ARE YOU? STUPID?

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