“ THE NAMES ARE ... THE FIRST THINGS TO GO. ” state this, so cavalier and matter of fact, as if nothing in life ( or death ) could hold a candle to this truth. you don’t expect her to understand. she isn’t dead like you are. her heart is still beating, and so is yours, but it’s different. it’s once every sixty seconds. the absence isn’t what bothers you anymore, but the beat itself; the heaviness of it, how it drags into your throat and then drops. you decide it’s a rather macabre thing to mention. to explain how it feels to be not quite living but not quite dead. “ we keep our memories ... longer, than our names. ” leighton bailey, leighton bailey, leighton bailey. you haven’t lost this piece of you yet, but you fear that one day, you just might.
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