Roxaboxen

(for while you read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3UGZWCQdjM)


I picked my way through the heap of growths that had claimed the road. The towers of the once proud city have fallen to axe, and now lay down as ghosts, leaves long under the dirt.

Oh mighty place, you are desolate. So quick to give to time and all of its characters. Beings coming and going, unknown in my absence.
                                                                     
                                                                The wars that have raged, the dark that has descended; I can only imagine. I was not here to watch over you. Now all I see is a plain and dry lot in the woods. Your walls gone, your paths forgotten, your houses in shambles. The wolves pass through you unchecked, and there is no human to see your wilderness- none with eyes, it seems.

Your once mighty river has fallen beneath me. It is not a worthy stream, just another seam in the earth for the morning dew to slide down. I would blow a closing trump if I had a horn, I would close you with a prayer- but there is no spirit left to farewell. There is no spirit or soul here anymore.

They have cut your hair bald, and ripped your dressings from you. Your teeth have been cracked and pulled, your eyes seared and shot. I do not know you. And I sat there trying.

 You have been had by the hands of adults who did not care, and of children who were not told. We only left our ropes and buckets, our sheets of steel, our footprints that quickly disappeared into the shifting ground of the woods. We should have told the children. We should have carved our story in a tree; left a note…

But the legends are lost and who can tell them? And who am I to say? For those who had kingdoms before ours, and we heard them not? And we did not know them?

5 SECRETS TO HANGING OUT WITH “THE BOYS” (WHEN YOU'RE A GIRL)

1. Cut out all the super cute crap: Guys like girls, and sometimes especially just how cute they are. The little pout y face when you’re angry, the cute talk, i.e. “that sounds soooo fun!”, “ooooh I want pancakes, they're so yummy!”, even the heart melting effect baby animals have on you. But one thing you have to know is, that when the guys ditch you to go hang out with their boys, a big part of that is they need a breather from all the ‘cute’ stuff. Girls seemingly live in a world of fluffy soft things, big watery eyes, and baby animals. Guys need time to escape to their world, which is bloody death movies, our epic glory stories, and video-freaking-games... not ANYthing cute
   
2. Don't talk so high: When you spend time with your girls it may be okay to raise the pitch of your voice when excitement grabs hold of you, but that crap is downright harmful to a mans ears. When he is spending time around girls, he is patiently bearing the pain of “Oh my gosh Jessica, I just LOVE your dress! Its so nice!”. He needs time weekly, or sometimes daily, to hang with the boys and not have to hear the whistle high inflections of womanly excitement. Talk normal when you're hanging out with the guys.    
3. Don't ruin the ‘boys dance party’: This is very important so listen closely. Dudes love to dance. They especially love to dance when they're alone with just the other guys, mostly because they like to dance in the stupidest, goofiest ways possible. Its just a total mess of present mindedness. One of the CRUCIAL reasons most girls can't hang out with the boys is because girls tend to see these silly dance fests and crinkle their eyebrows to it. Maybe its because they feel a bit insecure during it and get mentally defensive, or maybe because they truly do think it's dorky- but it doesn't matter. If you can't get up and join them in their ridiculous dance parade, or at least support it, then you're ruining man time, and you won't be allowed to hangout with them exclusively again.
   
4. The Whisper: now I know girls love to whisper to people about things, but guys can’t stand it. When you're hanging with the boys you just gotta say what your gonna say. If you wanna leave, say “I’m out guys, PEACE”, if you’re hungry “Man, I’m starved!”, if you think the movie someone wants to watch sucks, then say ‘yo this movie sucks’. But please, please, please do not whisper to someone what you think. If your with the pack for the nights, have the common courtesy to just say what you think. But use a little tack, no reason to tell someone their an idiot or that their ugly.
5. Trying too hard: even though all of these things may require a conscience effort for you to do differently, because they are so far from how you would normally act, don’t let yourself get too carried away. You want to hang out with the boys because its fun, goofy, and simple. When guys hangout together there is a lot of ‘in the moment’ going on. But nothing may be worse than a girl who tries TOO hard to be accepted by the boys. You may be going overboard if everything you say is “oh that's sick!”, “yo wazzup!”, “Aw yeeeah that's so tight!”. Don’t do anything that is so out of your character that they feel like their with a complete gomer. Just keep it cool.