PRISM
4.
When you fall in love, my sister said,
it’s like being struck by lightning.
She was speaking hopefully,
to draw the attention of the lightning.
I reminded her that she was repeating exactly
our mother’s formula, which she and I
had discussed in childhood, because we both felt
that what we were looking at in adults
were the effects not of lightning
but of the electric chair.
— Sep 10, 2026 03:14AM
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