September 2011
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Captive
I’m telling you, you’re not worth a second glance.
The truth is,
When you first caught my eye…
I never looked away again.
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remember when romance was analog?
medorthophobic:
alas-dos:
I miss the days when romance was analog.
Courtship used to involve risk and effort: phone calls on landlines where guys had to run the risk of your father picking up the phone, and having to be grilled by him for a few minutes after having delivered some sort of polite salutation, often akin to “Good evening, sir, may I please speak to your daughter?”
With the...
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The Quiet World
In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.
When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.
Late at night, I call my long...
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I'm not lucky. I am blessed.
