Smart girls

Smart girls are always being boring at parties, arms folded, smile wry, making sociology of everything.

STRUCTURE

Inner Beauty

"I want to fuck her brain," you say, urgent, eyes glazed.

"Okay," I respond, "but you're not going to be able to do that. All you'll do is put a part of you in a part of her and she'll be untouched."

SAMPLE CULTURE

Sometimes I see others' words and know that a slight shift could make them sound poetic, like sliding to the other side of the bed to be in the last sliver of morning sunlight through the blinds.

You weren't

You weren't a lover, you were a tourist.

FROZEN

When you said "Hey" in the way that we say "Hey"—like the breath is being gently plucked from our lungs—I softened. When you kissed me, I melted. When you left, I froze.

28 years

It has taken 28 years for life to seem irrevocable.