No, I can never fall in love with you again cause I never fell out of love
― Jack Kerouac
To love someone is to simply turn around.
Here is my hand, he said Here is my hand that will not harm you.
— Louise Glück Epithalamium from "Descending Figure.”
-Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay
𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠.
𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒.
𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒.
𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠.
𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠.
𝐻𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 𝐺𝑖𝑟𝑙𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝐷𝑎𝑦 💌
"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those."
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
This for all the broken friendships we couldn't save
This for all the words we didn't say cause we were afraid they will not understand
This for all the promises which were not meant to fulfil
This for all the more than friends less than lovers
-Anne Michaels, from "Infinite Gradation," originally published in October 2017
-The diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913