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THOUGHTS ON GOD

 

FROM OCTOBER 2020 ISSUE OF WEST END PHOENIX

THOUGHTS ON GOD (The Serial) by Lido Pimiento
 
LIDO: Mom, why can't I JUST STAY HOME?! Why do I have to go to church EVERY SUNDAY??!! PLEEEEASE HAVE SOME COMPASSION!! MOM: You wanna talk TO ME about compassion? Do you even know what that means??
MOM: YOU'VE GOT SOME NERVE!!
MOM: How do you think I feel when my ONLY daughter dresses like Morticia ADDAMS JUST to embarrass me in front of my friends?!!! LIDO: Well, they don't sound like good CHRISTIANS to ME, mother dearest!!
LIDO: You and your "friends" get an E for effort but the reference you are looking for is Wednesday Addams. A FASHION ICON!! MOM: FUNERAL FASHION ICON!! LIDO: Rude...
MOM: Maria, every Sunday morning, we go through the same thing. You are only 11 years old. But you act like you are the mother. YOU ARE NOT. ACT YOUR AGE — NINA!!
MOM: You think when I was your age I had any say or "conversation" about going or not going to mass?! Do you really think I had even the choice to wear the clothes I wanted?!! You think I would be ALLOWED to leave the house without relaxing my hair?!
LIDO: Well I'm sorry you had to go through that, but none of it is my FAULT. Do you want me to be a sheep?! Do you want me to look and sound like and be like everyone else?? I DON'T THINK SO!! I don't want to "FIT IN". I want to be happy — ALONE!!!!
MOM: Careful what you wish for hija mia. I used to say that to your father and look at me now!! All of that fighting got me nowhere. Cancer took him and now I'm all alone...
LIDO: Sigh... what a trickster — GOD — Taking my daddy from me...
LIDO: But this is what I mean... God is supposed to watch over us, but it's like he saw how happy we were and decided it was GAME OVER!! But I still have to go to church every Sunday and pretend I am cool with the dude... RUDE... Just Rude...
Close up of Lido & her mom's face. "It's you & me"
paperLido PimientaNovember 11, 2020
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