Status Updates From Crush: Twentieth Anniversar...

third time around
Annotating a copy for the one i love. These are not love poems

"Your name like a song I sing to myself, your name like a box where I keep my love, your name like a nest in the tree of love, your name like a boat in the sea of love" best collection of poems i've read in my life. i am changed. i am crying.

“Knocked hard enough to make the record skip
and change its music, setting the melody on its
forward course again, circling and circling the center hole in the flat black disk.
And words, little words,
words too small for any hope or promise, not really soothing
but soothing nonetheless” i am ten pages in im criyng so hard

" I didn't want to see it this way,
everything eating everything in the end.
We know how the light works,
we know where the sound is coming from.
Verse. Chorus. Verse.
I'm sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious.” kill me

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.” This changed me as a person I fear