WE DEFINE LOVE THE WAY WE EXPERIENCE IT:
all teeth.
WE DEFINE LOVE THE WAY WE EXPERIENCE IT:
shaking hands and mouths taped shut because we can’t bear the words and trembling smiles like a dog that has been beaten so often it forgets how to snarl.
WE DEFINE LOVE THE WAY WE EXPERIENCE IT:
i am your option b and you are the devil himself in a pristine white tank and that same old wide salesman’s smile. give me your sales pitch – i’ll bite because i am a fool, particularly for you. you make love a war cry. you make love the hours between three and five a.m. when there is no one but me and i am empty. you make love less of a spiritual experience and more of the dirty things teenagers do in the back of a car before they know better. you make love a challenge and i am too proud to back down.
WE DEFINE LOVE THE WAY WE EXPERIENCE IT:
i would’ve burned down my inner cities for you – i would’ve reached into my ribcage and dismantled the machinery there, i would’ve collapsed into myself like a wormhole if you’d told me i was too much. and love is this: sacrifice.
WE DEFINE LOVE THE WAY WE EXPERIENCE IT:
throats ripped open again and again because we are sadists.
WE DEFINE LOVE THE WAY WE EXPERIENCE IT: cold snow down my spine; the chill standing between us.
WE DEFINE LOVE THE WAY WE EXPERIENCE IT:
an ache, pure and simple.
WE DEFINE LOVE THE WAY WE EXPERIENCE IT:
loud and vengeful. roaring and murderous.
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