When a New Yorker

calls you

u dumb BITCH

it means you made it

you’ve been adopted by the city.

It’s one of those rites of passage.

Then again, I think she’s from Jersey City.

Does that count?

I hope so!

I need to feel accepted,

I’m working on my accent

since I already blend in nicely

with my fancy glasses, striped shirts, skinny jeans.

It turns out she’s not going to kill me though.

No shooting scenes under the rain.

She was just drunk 

and young

and mad at me for enjoying the kisses

of her favorite polyamorous dragon.