The Greater Good

December 24, 2009

Brandi Wells

By Brandi Wells.

When he was bored, my older brother used to rape me. No, I’m kidding. But if that was true you would think I was fucked up.

I am fucked up. I have never patched a hole in my jeans or jacket. I just keep wearing them that way and pretend I don’t know the hole is there. If anyone points it out I act embarrassed and say, “Oh, I didn’t know that was there.”

I have a stuffed mouse whose ears have been reattached eight times. I know it is eight times exactly because each time I thought my mother was hurting him, pulling the needle through his head and then the bottom part of his ear. I would lay on my bedroom floor for hours afterwards telling him that I loved him and that his surgery was for the greater good.

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