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Ōtomo no Sakanoue no Iratsume, from a poem titled "Like the sedge of sun-dominated Naniwa," featured in Japanese Women Poets: An Anthology
Alex Dimitrov, “Poem Written in a Cab”, Love and Other Poems
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17 June, 1926 The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf (1924-1941) [ID: Date — 17 June 1926. Text — God, how it rains — I do wish you were here. END ID]
Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in The Letters & Journals of Katherine Mansfield
Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959
Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955
there's tales in old poems telling the truth about day and night and how each night the sun promise to die so the moon could shine, and how the universe reward them with eclipses when both can meet again from time to time.
where love is not giving up nor staying is just waiting, old proverb promise what's your cannot miss u, and here I am unbalance by your absence everyday.
I wish I could say that I'm over it, except in my wildest dreams you'd always find a way to apologize and come back to me. As if the biggest mistake in your life wasn't staying so long but leaving me breathless after loving us so much more.
There's this verse that says I talk to the ghosts each day, but they have nothing new to say, they're always haunted by the same stories. Thought our memories became my favorite supercut to rewatch like a comfort show begging me to trying to remember it all, don't allow to miss a single piece, a single conversation, a single sound, or touch, is inevitable to see on the other side of the line there's a voice that never calls back.
I'm still haunted by you, like that story where shatter in pieces tells the more I tried to fix you there more I cut myself, I heal you, then you left and I was left there wondering which part belong to me and which ones belong to you.
There's no art in letting you go, realizing we were never a masterpiece and you were just playing with me, and what feel like the biggest promise, the universe fail to keep, and it was all actually just a scam, you played me and I was so stupid to believed that you ever loved me, that you could love me somehow, poetry falls short, there's no words to describe the truth, I was convenient until I was not, and you suck life out of me then one day you were bored, and you used me, and I fight back every time somebody point out, and here I am again, out of friends, and you left, and I'm here asking myself, how could you do this if you said you loved me?
Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,"
Necesito irme a un lugar donde pueda ser una cabrona. Tal vez por eso me empezaste a gustar, tenemos un par de ajustes predeterminados salidos de fábrica donde te puedo decir que te estás pasando de verga y a cambio me dices cuando me paso de pendeja, y aquí las palabras no pesan.
Me puedes decir no jalo a tus mamadas y yo te puedo decir al chile aquí te mamaste, y solo nos brillan los ojitos y nos reímos confidencialmente porque sabemos perfectamente que tan culeros somos y a quien tenemos enfrente. No es gran cosa decir que me gustas porque puedo ser honesta, como si no fuera la levedad de la falta de tacto lo que genera ese Rush dopamínico de confianza, jamás se ha tratado de las connotaciones sociales predefinidas sino del significado que les damos, y si me lo dices no estás buscando que me duela. Es más divertido ser tu mismo, cuando puedes decir lo que piensas sin que se mal entienda.
Y justo ahora necesito mudarme a una piel más auténtica, una yo que dice lo que piensa que no oscila entre oraciones para aclarar la incomodidad, que no pierde el tiempo en detalles.
En tu mundo mentar madres no es agresivo, la burla es cercanía, el insulto es consejo, la verdad es liviana, como cuando me abrazas por detrás de la cintura y me susurras mamadas al oído, y yo me quedo ahí riendo porque me gusta la sensación, o nos abrazamos mientras caminamos y platicamos porque tuvimos un buen día, o dices ups cuando te encuentro en prendas menores y a cambio me cambio de outfit para que me mires y me digas que me queda mejor, o cuando te lleno de brillos la cara y el coche y pretendes molestarte mientras tus amigos bromean diciendo que voy super producida aunque ambos sabemos discretamente que te gusta que me tome tanto tiempo en arreglarme y verme bonita, creo que así te dan más ganas de acercarte y decirme eres mía, y pretender al otro día que el alcohol estaba haciendo sus efectos y no recuerdas de nuevo, solo para ver que tanto omito del momento.
Me gusta que seas un ojete que me hace reír a carcajadas, y prueba cocteles conmigo, y me pide que le haga margaritas un miércoles por la noche, me gusta quien soy cuando estoy contigo, mis lados oscuros se sienten vistos, suaves, divertidos, humanos, aquí no hay juegos, hay canciones de Luis Mi, y bromas pesadas, piojito, groserías, abrazos, paletitas de antro, sustos en medio de la cocina que me desnivelan el sistema nervioso, y me sacan un grito, una mueca, y un suspiro. Tus sábados de quesadillas, y pláticas en el coche a las 5:00 de la madrugada, como la vez que me compraste flores en el antro porque sabes lo mucho que las amo. Contigo es siempre hablar al chile, ser real, leer entre el contacto indefinido, y ahora me encuentro aquí no saber si escuchar los consejos de Tay Tay y de nuevo arriesgarme a mis patrones de arruinar la amistad.
You're like a coffee stain I successfully fail to clean everyday.
Even on the mornings when I don't feel like drinking it, I still manage to pour myself another cup, and so it goes.
The table, the breakfast, the ted talk, the hot berbage, the ticking clock, the silence, the love.
There's no tiny cracks at the bottom, just one sip and it overboards.
Like then when you tasted me for my sweetness and warm, although you would rather drink your coffee straight, leaving me bitter cause you never wanted to stay.
But you just needed to have me, you couldn't just left it there, we both are coffee lovers and sometimes addicts I might explain.
Is not the caffeine but the absence of it that gets us on edge, cause it was never the loving feeling but the compromise that took you away.
Is easier to mirror yourself in the coffee pot than it is on an empty mug. You spill in drops, until the whole thing claims a spot, you sip right through my memories, no matter how careful I'll try to be, it feels like there's no way it'll stay clean.
Maybe I should stop drinking coffee everyday, and try matcha instead, but it's part of my system just like a few months ago you were.
I should spiritually clean my house but I'm scared it may take away your ghost.
And then who would I talk to when I'm missing your voice. What would i look up for if it isn't your shadow in every spot. Is an empty house without furniture just the memories of us, your presence and what I used to call love.
¿Por qué tocaste algo tan mío si no ibas a quedarte?
Pintaste heridas encima de un recuerdo inocente. Pusiste audacia donde solo se había cultivado amor. Arruinaste mi parque favorito de la infancia. No podías irte sin dejar marca sucia en mis recuerdos aunque ya habías dejado algo bonito.
Estábamos bien éramos amigos, cual era la necesidad de jugar conmigo cuando yo si te amaba.
Esto no es un duelo es una investigación de hacer paz con tu disonancia emocional.
Y toma cada parte de mi no odiarte cuando solo dañaste algo que yo había cuidado con tanta intención que te hice saber lo importante que era para mi.
Y aun así lo hiciste, te recolecté conchitas de mar, y me besaste en la casa de nuestros amigos, y luego me dejaron de invitar.
Has pagado mucho con tus errores y aun así sigues sin saber cuando parar.