Urban Mermaidz

What is The American Dream in the 21st century?

I bought real estate and it doesn’t seem so much like a dream.

I started a business and I work more than I play.

I have no man. My so-called friends always want something from me.

My father said he didn’t find his place in the world until he started working for the NYPD in his late 20s. Shortly thereafter he met the woman of his dreams.

“When I saw her, I just wanted to be with her,” he says to me sitting across our kitchen table in the house of his dreams on a four-acre property in Central Florida. My parents’ American Dream.

I look in the mirror. Who do I see? I come to no conclusions.

I do a yoga pose.

I read about perseverance in the Book of James.

I lay on my floor and cry.