It’s been years since I saw you at Gilbert’s El Indio
We waved but I didn’t stay. It was clear you were in deep
They say I wouldn’t recognize you so I’ve kept my vision pure
Giddy, ridiculous, sun bombed, self-conscious, unselfconscious
Like Stevie
Back then, we knew everything there was to know about
Everything
You couldn’t tell us
Anything
We hadn’t yet left home or done much
But we were destined
For the big screen and magazines
You knew the names of all the actors and the models, even the minor ones
Patti Hanson, Kim Alexis
I committed it all to memory. Documenting the rise. I’d write your bio, say I knew you when
We were 15 but said we were 16, just so we could work
At Woolworths
I thought you were smart, had things wired
And you did
Until the switch flipped
I don’t know when you found trouble or how it found you
These things have gone wrong since the dawn of time,
Or at least since the dawn of 7-11 parking lots
But we who belong to the sisterhood of checked-out mothers, stay at home mothers, gone to the club mothers, corporate executive at the bar mothers, overwhelmed by life and death and disappointed by life and divorce mothers, hooked on their own unique blend of white wine and Valium mothers, frozen in time mothers, younger than we are now that some of us are grandmothers mothers are here
And we love you
So tell us
Is it over now? And
Do you know how
To pick up the pieces and go home?
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Everyone has a blueprint, everyone sets out to do their thing. It’s all here, for us to learn. I’ve never stopped learning. Earth ain’t meant to be heaven. We’re all angels having an earthly experience. Everything you can think of happens right here on this earth. If it wasn’t for sex and money
and fighting, there would be no problems. It’s all how you look at things. We all have intuition. The real truth is in the quiet of who you are. I walk hand in hand with who I really am. I remember my other lifetimes. I don’t want to do the same things over and over. It might take many times but the choice is whether we decide to live in love or in the things we fear. Every time you do an interview, ask yourself the questions you want the answers to, ask everything you want to know of yourself. You’ll hear things you never heard before. You
already know all this. It’s not anything you haven’t heard before. Fear or love. You have go through it and deal with it. It’s how get to where we want to be. By the time we die, did we really answer the call? Did you
live the life you wanted to live?
Denise Sullivan 