quintessentially C

  • Oh No, Here She Goes Again

    There is beauty everywhere my love,Even in the scariest.If only you will look.And there is ugliness everywhere,But listen love,I am a beautiful thing.I’ll hand you peeled clementines and sliced apples.I’ll come home to you at two on a Thursday night. I’ll stand at your window and I’ll throw pebbles till you let me in, and…

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  • To Phil, With Love

    (with excerpts from nursery rhymes in red) Dear Phil, Do you see the shadow trudging behind me? He’s very, very like me from the heels up to the head. He’s taller, darker, emptier, and with him, every day is Groundhog Day. So I’d crawl back under the covers and maybe in six weeks it’d be…

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  • The Last Man Standing

    I adored him 4 years and 5 girlfriends before I gathered the nerve to speak with him. In the end, it did not matter who loved him the longest. It’s the pattern of things to end, I now recognise, to be insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Day after day, I lived in a…

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