kill your darlings - meeting in bars, upbeat jazz music, scathing kisses under trees, writing poems unrestrained, frantic hands on a typewriter, a vision by john keats, getting high with art and words and yearning, hands pounding the table like drums, reading forbidden books, reciting vulgar words, cigarette smoke and upturned wine glasses, attempting to hang yourself for the fun of it— to become reborn, ripped pages from books stuck on walls, of naked bodies, secret rendezvous in libraries, holding a darling lost love at sea
the imitation game - static beeps of morse codes, solving crossword puzzles, the sound of pencil on paper, millions and millions of patterns, the constant hum of machines, the elegant scrawl of equations on a blackboard, peas and carrots, secret meetings late at night, the imminent war— war declared, breaking enigma, encrypting and decrypting messages day and night, half-eaten apples, exchanging coded messages, paperclip rings, a lonely figure and his machine
maurice - light footsteps in darkened hallways, discussions of philosophy and life, rolling in the grass, the melodious tune of a piano, breathless laughter, the playful antics of two men— in love, a counter-love, ‘the love of boys’, beloved hands stroking soft hair, the lowly creak of a chair, hesitant embrace, awkward confessions, rolling in the grass, with the cacophony of nature interwoven, letters of yearning, an unspeakable— of the oscar wilde sort, of bitter farewells, sneaking inside of windows, an abandoned boathouse, a lasting kiss
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