Pretty People: Hayley (Aquired Taste)

Ethel Merman was known as "Old leather lungs". People used to say they could hear from the nose-bleed seats without the a microphone.
"Sing out Louise!!!"

From the moment I was born I made sure I was heard. I had something important to say, and I wasn't about to be silenced.
But volume doesn't make people listen...

I used to be called the "Human Microphone". I kind of liked it, at least they knew I existed, right? Being anonymous is worse then being wrong.  Being un-heard is worse than not being able to talk...

I always talk too much. That's what everyone says. I don't have a problem articulating my thoughts...
My problem was filtering it.
When people said "Turn down the volume!", they never ment the music.

I never had any friends because people said hanging around me would give them "Hearing Damage".
And everyone called me an "aquired taste".

I hate the word so much.
My few friends said that to me.
My teachers.
Even my parents...

So what...I'm loud... But iwas born this way. Loud and proud.

I'm not an aquaired taste. I'm a work of art. Everyone sees it, but most people don't get it.

I am a pretty, loud, person.

Someday.
Everyday.

Hayley Michelle 14 years old. October 11, 2011.