1.
Can we not talk about the curtains for ten goddamn minutes? I know you think it matters whether the backdrop to this epic love is splattered-brain pink or oxygen-deficient blue, but quite frankly, we've been living in a house without windows for weeks now.
2.
After you fell asleep the other night, I got up and started writing poems I knew I would never let you see.
3.
In my head, it goes like this: you come home with a bundle of sunflowers and dirt underneath your fingernails. You learned how to dig from your father. In my head, you have a father who taught you how to dig.
4.
The day we decided to call it quits there was a rotting peach sitting on your coffee table. You told me you bought the bundle to make the place more welcoming. If our relationship were a metaphor, keeping rotting flesh to make the house a home would be the one.
5.
I always wished my mother had the guts to throw things away that were long past their expiration dates.
6.
You know that poem about the man who keeps finding bobby pins months after his girlfriend left? A part of me wishes I had worn more bobby pins in my hair when we were together. A bigger part of me wants to cut my ponytail at the root and leave it on your doorstep.
7.
I wasn't given these hands to write about you in the past tense.
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