January 2010
4 posts
Fourth grade.
Back then there was this Berlin Wall between my mouth and bad words. The first time I said a bad word aloud. It wasn’t even an evil cuss. Just a permutation of a local word for stupid. Tanga. At age ten, the evils of my world were bad words and cigarettes. Porn was fine. But bad words? No fuckin’ way.
I remembered practicing internally. I would say bad words over and over in my head...