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| Spoken by Olivia Gatwood and Megan Falley |
sweet in the air like the national anthem.
It's baseball season! And you love baseball and
going to these games with your boyfriend.
And today it might be the perfect day
As you watch the little boys with their sticky
grins on their fathers shoulders.
As you watch all the happy people on the
Jumbotron.
And then you see your own face and your
boyfriend down on one knee.
And then you see an engagement ring so big it
blinds the screen.
And when when he looks at you, like he caught
the home-run ball
And then you look up and see the thousands of
people in the stadium rooting for you
To do it. To say yes!
This is for the woman who says no.
They will boo you as you run down the stadium
steps because it will never be the wedding aisle.
Someone will throw popcorn at you because it will never be rice or confetti.
Someone will catch your wrist because it will never be the bouquet.
They will call you a villain, a bitch.
They will call you worse
They will curse the day you learned any other
words besides
Yes
And sorry
The ones that think themselves kind will ask why
you couldn't just fake it for the screen.
Why you had to make "no" a public thing
There are little girls in the audience after all and
you denied them their
FUCKING fairy tale
Someone will tell you now ex-boyfriend how
undeserving you are.
How any sane woman would have loved that proposal.
And you must have not been shit anyway
Probably crazy, and he will nod
And somewhere a man calls a woman from
outside his car window
"Hey sexy! Come closer"
She says "no"
"Cunt, you're ugly anyway!"
Somewhere a woman argues for a higher salary
And her coworker call her a bitch in the break
room
Somewhere a woman's friends signed her up for
a makeover show
The audience laughs when she says she loves
her sweatpants
The audience laughs when they throw them out
anyway
Somewhere a girl is told that if she doesn't want
to hear the song about rape
Don't listen to it!
But it follows her in the supermarket, the gym,
the girl's clothing aisle
And now she knows all the words
Somewhere a woman is told to get naked at frat
parties, she refuses
A boy with a kind smile puts his arm around her,
offers her a beer filled with the magic that erases
No
Her vocabulary, Iam 16 in the managers office
of my first job
My boss, whispers a list of the things he will do
to my body
I say "no" and he threatens my next paycheck.
My long term boyfriends bed, after having sex 5
times already that morning
I say "no" and he says
"This probably isn't going to work"
Then Connecticut a girl is asked to senior prom by
someone other than her boyfriend
She says "no" and his knife blooms a corsage in
her chest
California, a young virgin boy thinks about you
and the ones like you
The ones that said "no" and the audience that
boos
And the poor sucker who was owed something
then denied it.
And he cocks his gun
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