and standing in line they just wait
for their coffee. And hurry off.
It takes me five minutes to get tea
but I know everyone in that shop.
In other cities they say they're southern
and they're proud that they say southern words
like y'all. If you are proud of using a pronoun
it's probably time to reevaluate what you
find culturally significant. Because that's
just an everyday word around here.
In Egypt, you can greet a person by wishing them
"morning of light" or "morning of jasmine"
or other variants. In New Orleans we don't have
anything quite so romantic. But occasionally
who dat works just as well.
Ruthie, age 16
