typodescript:eliamatrell:— MARGARET ATWOOD, from “A Sad Child”[ID text: You’re sad because you’re sa
typodescript:eliamatrell:— MARGARET ATWOOD, from “A Sad Child”[ID text: You’re sad because you’re sad.It’s psychic. It’s the age. It’s chemical.Go see a shrink or take a pill,or hug your sadness like an eyeless dollyou need to sleep.Well, all children are sadbut some get over it.Count your blessings. Better than that,buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet.Take up dancing to forget.Forget what?Your sadness, your shadow,whatever it was that was done to youthe day of the lawn partywhen you came inside flushed with the sun,your mouth sulky with sugar,in your new dress with the ribbonand the ice-cream smear,and said to yourself in the bathroom,I am not the favourite child. end ID] -- source link