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Lipstick and Bubblegum Money
A poem.
Here’s some allowance, he said. It’s just for fun.
Spend it however you like, it’s for lipstick and bubble gum.
For him it wasn’t a huge sum.
It meant the world to me.
Now adult I write and I wish I were earning as much writing for Medium
as Dad gave me for lipstick and bubblegum.
For Jenny Justice thanks for the prompt ish.
Jonica is a writer, rancher, painter, and a poet. For the past ten years, she has been living and working on a ranch in Texas with her husband, 1 teenager, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 10 goats, 80 sheep, a handful of chickens, 4 drakes, 1 snake, and a llama. She writes about all of this and her many, varied life experiences. Jonica is a mental health advocate and shares her experiences in the hopes of de stigmatizing mental and emotional conditions. She does not like the words “mental illness”, “disorder”, and “should” among many others. Jonica is a proud💗POM-poet!💗
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