Anais Vionet Poet Rhyme

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sugar boo

We’re frantically typing to finish our assignments
and end our Friday night homework confinement.
Chella wants to go to a frat-house soirée
I went to a few of those back in the day.

No more frat parties, I once emphatically said.
I make rules for myself, usually based on emotion
but once I calm down, rules are made to be broken,
and it’s good, I suppose, to stay in touch with the kids

Chella does this a lot, finds a trendy hot spot,
and drags me along, enthusiastically or not.
She’ll attempt, and fail, to do a Keg stand.
That’s ok, we’re not athletes, I understand.

We’re just having fun with it, hitting a beat good,
fugitives from the rough passage to adulthood
We feel like old ladies now -  it's hilarious.
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Mini playlist for this:
Pon de Replay by Rihanna
Little Things x Gypsy Woman (L BEATS MASHUP) by Jorja Smith
Can't Feel My Face by The Weeknd
Summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
More Than A Woman (SG's Paradise Edit) by Bee Gees & SG Lewis
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*I’ve got a Will Smith track here, I’m ashamed of how much I love his early 
Fresh Prince rap years - but on the real - OJ was ‘the juice’ before he was OJ, 
Michael wasn’t always hyperbaric and Will Smith pretended he wasn’t the
wifedup jesus pretenda he revealed himself to be.
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slang..     
wifedup  = pu$$y-whipped   
jesus       = nice guy   
pretenda = pretender
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*We feel like old ladies because 
(1) these frat boys are just lowly undergraduates and we’re master’s candidates which is vastly, vastly better. and 
(2) we're Yale graduates, which is vastly, vastly better than being Harvard graduates (in our opinion).

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Vincine Fallica July 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM <3 . Never went to ‘sleep-a-way’ schools myself. All my education & training was commuter based so I ‘missed out’ on that whole frat party keg circus thing. On the other hand, I lived in NYC so there was a whole lot of trouble available to me if I wanted it. . . I sympathize with your recognition of limitations in your advanced age. What are you now? All of 23? It’s good you keep up with the kids. It’ll keep you young. ;-) Anais Vionet July 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM NYC is a 24x7 circus, if you can’t get in trouble there, you can’t get in trouble anywhere =] I’ll be 22 in September, most of these undergrads are 19ish. We wanted to observe the Harvard frat scene. This was an off-campus SAE. There were a couple of hundred people there and It was bangin’. It was funny to compare the official frat pictures where all the guys were suited up and the BROs that were there. =]