My grandma’s made me potato soup to get my mind off this boy who’s dumped me.
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My grandma’s made me potato soup to get my mind off this boy who’s dumped me.
I showed up at the agreed-upon time with the fixings for a birthday pizza picnic party …
I bask in the warm cinnamon heat, wishing I had held back till we finished the sugary churro funnel cake she had ordered with uninformed optimism.
The afterlife of our relationship is sprinkled with ash. I’ve started smoking to keep my lips busy.
What I’m going to miss were those silky exits from the back seat of an Uber, the air that went limp as a sigh when she decanted and entered the pulse of a neighborhood …
I wanted forever. You thought you wanted forever.
I choose rye, it seems dignified and things are awfully broken.
The Zoom session with the judge was about to start and, in five minutes, those ties that bound them so closely together disintegrated, at least legally.
After,
I stood on the street
as the drunken city hurtled past,
broke around me in eddies.