Learning to breathe water is a skill

  1. Like learning to sleep with your eyes open
  2. Like learning the alphabet backwards
  3. Like learning to to play the piano
  4. Like learning to drive a speed chase in reverse
  5. Like learning to walk in broken heels
  6. Like learning to cheat on an open book exam
  7. Like learning to apply mascara in a moving vehicle
  8. Like learning to write with your right hand when you’re left handed
  9. Like learning to talk softly, smile sweetly
  10. Like learning to hold your tongue, act like a lady
  11. Like learning boys don’t like girls who...
  12. Like learning love comes later
  13. Like learning how to say no nicely
  14. Like learning to eat your feelings because it has less calories than food
  15. Like learning to fold yourself into him
  16. Like learning to wipe the tears before the blood dries
  17. Like learning to breathe underwater

Skills I've earned
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In this life...

  1. You hold the door open for me,
  2. You are shocked when I thank you
  3. But in the next one?
  4. I weep beside you at your mother's funeral
  5. in one before?
  6. I bore you a child
  7. and in a separate one
  8. I do laundry
  9. and you? taxes.

Calculus
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