Close your eyes and they'll go away, her father says, or You're just imagining. And anyway, a woman's place is sleeping so she can wake up early with the tortilla star, the one that appears early just in time to rise and catch the hind legs hide beneath the four-clawed tub, under the swollen floorboards nobody fixes, in the corner of your eyes.

Alicia, whose mama died, is sorry there is no one older to rise and make the lunchbox tortillas. Alicia, who inherited her mama's rolling pin and sleepiness, is young and smart and studies for the first time at the university. Two trains and a bus, because she doesn't want to spend her whole life in a factory or behind a rolling pin. Is a good girl, my friend, studies all night and sees the mice, the ones her father says do not exist. Is afraid of nothing except four-legged fur. And fathers.

Sandra Cisneros

I'm reading a book on comedy right now, and this stand up exemplifies all of which it claims is necessary for a perfect comedic performance. This was the best stand up I've seen in a long time! Comedy is supposed to be fun, comedian to comedian I know she was really enjoying herself up there watching these people squirm. When on stage a comedian acts as a puppeteer playing on the strings of our imaginations. It's a type of critisim of the human form. As we're watching their perfomance we think: "Do I do that?", "Do I know someone who does that?", etc. We imagine how these words correlate with our own lives, experiences, people we've met, people we've heard of, or even people we've imagined. Comedy can even create imaginary people like Jim Crow or Borat. Both of which are on the complete opposite ends of the spectrum. Comedians are teachers. Comedy can only offend someone who is incapable of taking a joke; literally taking it, and applying it to their every day life to alter their human form. When Trump won the first thing I thought was is this a joke? Maybe it is, because we will certainly all take initiative to alter policies to make sure that someone like him will never be in that position of power ever again. My second thought was that now maybe all of the oppressed people will join together to fight their oppressors. Instead of fighting over who's more oppressed. He's trying to separate people but he's actually unifying people who share if anything at least one thing in common; their dislike for him. I can be thankful for his presidency for shedding light on the dangers of putting unqualified people in a position of privilege, the dangers of a politically controlled media, and after seeing this performance I can thank him and all parties (lol) involved for being so shitty. Had you not been so shitty you wouldn't have given not only Michelle Wolf, but all comedians out there some really great material. She set a new bar. Usually people who are asked to fill that position are walking on eggshells, they want to be funny but don't want to offend anyone too too much and Michelle Wolf said fuck that! I'm going to teach all of you motherfuckers a lesson. Y'all gon' learn today bitch! Do your research cause if you don't, someone will (MW), and she will use it to roast the fuck out of you. She's critiquing your human form in front of the world, and you can't take a joke. You can't take a joke because you're uneducated, unable to make changes to the actions that you took that led you to be the shit person you are; unable to facilitate change for the better of all. You couldn't facilitate that change so she did. She was fearless in her critisisms. These were puppets she didn't want to play with. These are puppets that are boxed. She played on the strings of her own imagination.