
Her body was still warm when the separation began. Gossip began to flow, the hostility began to show. I cannot believe I was witness to such debauchery. It went as far as someone stealing a saint. A saint that belonged to my grandmother for over 5 decades…all of a sudden everyone needed a description, they had no clue what I asked for. Maybe it was my grandma who mixed up the meds on my mom, made her give me her own blood pressure medication rather than the 2 xanax I asked for. Good thing because I would have hated the disrespect I would have had to bless the funeral with. Although it would have been in her defense, she would have not wanted it to be that way. During her viewing I felt as if I was stuck in a coma, I could see and hear all, but could not for the life of me move or reply. Before this pill induced coma, right before, one of my cousins got one hell of a piece of my mind. The night before the viewing as we sat in my mother’s house mourning and remembering, my sisters, me and a few people at my mother’s house decided we should make a memorial poster for my grandmother. We looked around for photos of only her but found only a few and used whatever photos we did have. As we made the poster and went to staples to get it printed right before they closed we said amongst ourselves, “I hope they do not miss the point of this poster, but they will” They did. I have bartended for many years and it has made it possible for me to listen in on more than one conversation even in whispers even when I try not to, I can also read lips. As I silently spoke to my grandmother I hear my lovely cousin say “How disrespectful is it that Tito’s girl (my brother’s girl) is on the poster, but they didn’t have the consideration of putting me on the poster.” I flipped. I knew they would miss the point of the poster because that is the piece of fucking shit family I have to deal with. Damn they could not even wait to get to the privacy of their own homes to begin to talk shit? Oh how the poster was SO HALF ASSED Most of us were there for a week all of us together yet we only saw each other at the funeral and the burial. I have cousins that swear they must of come up so fucking rich. “Oh we can’t all get together in one house, there are too many of us.” Oh I am fucking sorry I did not realize we grew up in a fucking mansion. I did not realize that Mama and Papa had a fucking north south east and west wing in their house where we ALL fit. Not even in the death of our dear saint grandma we could all come together. Let us not even get to the fact that one of my little cousins did not even ATTEND the funeral or the burial and lived in the same state. The same piece of fucking shit that has had to ask for forgiveness from almost all of us because he has robbed us blind, including my grandmother. My mother asked me to apologize to my cousin so that no one talks shit because my cousin went to her copping pleas, stating that I over reacted on a JOKE she was saying. Of course is it now a joke, U were fucking caught talking shit u dumb bitch. Most of my family disgust me to a point I would love to spit a big fat fucking goober in their face, u know the new reality tv slap. Enough of them, they deserve no more space here.
You cannot choose your blood, unfortunately, but u can choose your family as I have done my entire life. I come from such a broken family I tend to create my own. As fast as I let you in my life is as fast as I will also dismiss you if I feel you are only poison to my being. I defend my family as anyone would defend theirs, maybe a little more. I care for my family more than I care for myself, sometimes to fault. But I CHOSE THEM, I allowed them to stay. I have chosen nothing but positive to stay in my life because it is what I want MY FAMILY to be, positive. I do not apologize ever for the things I say, maybe the way I said them. I mean what I say and say what I mean. A lot of people tend to think I think too highly of myself. Do I? My standards are mine, yours are yours. I would LOVE to have a friend like me. I would love to have someone devoted to me as I am devoted to them, so I look for that. Who am I to just “dismiss” someone they say, who am I not to I say *kanyeshrug* Although I open up and give give give I have learned to differentiate those worth my time and those not, right away. It took many years for me to realize this, but just because you are my blood, it sure does not mean you are family.