Andrea Jurjević

In memoriam

It is true that she launched a rock into the head of a boy with a close crew cut and made his temples bleed. He was crouching over the ground and playing marbles with the other boys. It is true that she wrapped a love note around the rock. It is true that she took a cigarette lighter to her hair. That she loved Frankie Goes to Hollywood before she learned to read. It is true that she learned Italian by reading her father’s [    ] mags. It is true that before she started [          ] her father had a habit of [     ] his [   ] into [   ] [  ] It is true, her mother said, that she sometimes exaggerated. It is true, her teacher said, that she didn’t like community service and receiving criticism. It is true that she learned how to [        ] to Electric by the Cult. Wild honey child, etc. It is true that her favorite words are wild and fire. It is true that her first kiss was with a pretty glue huffer. It is true that a butch girl fisted her once into the sternum. It is true that she had a thing for [    ] and androgyny. It is true that she once charmed a cop on the streets of a war-torn town, so much so a foreigner proposed to her on the spot, called her his destiny. The foreigner was a Capricorn rising so of course he got [  ] when he saw a woman work her way with authority. It’s true that her Venus was in detriment. And that a man once threw a [    ] at her. It’s true that sometimes she felt cinematic. Like when that cute doctor made her sit topless in a cold examination room, then lowered his face down to her heart level and gazed at her lumpy [      ]. It’s true that she’d make herself [  ] when stuck in traffic. It’s true that she once [   ] a man for nine hours straight. It’s also true that his wife called him BC, short for Beautiful [    ]. It’s true that every stranger on the phone who promised her a big hard [     ] turned out to be a drunk with a short fat [    ]. It is true that beautiful men made her feel like she was a sleek silver fish with a hot hook in her lip. That is all. That is all she had. Half a lip. Its wild burn. Blood on her teeth.