o.
there are nine reasons why a writer will never love you (back)
and this is one of them.
i.
we've never said exactly what we've meant -
and we know it is useless
to start now.
instead we scatter g a_p...s in our
tongues, like punctuation
we expect you to read between the thoughts
you're not good enough if you can't
hear our meants
ii.
we will always love a strand of music
a quote, or a word
more than we love you; Ludricrous,
Pachyderm, Visceral, Didactic, Aphonia
so when push comes to shove
we will gladly break our hearts.
so we can write about you,
instead of the alternatives
iii.
we know ourselves very well
and you do not
you are a lengthly investment and
probably,
aren't worth the effort
(we have imagined this before)
(we have worded it before)
we know better
(now.)
iv.
when we say we love you
we will mean something
very different,
to you
the difference could kill us daily
so we won't even try to say it -
(this is not mutual)
v.
we are brats, and selfish and
being artistic is leave to
claw out of our lives.
would you trust us with your life?
what about the lives of your friends and family?
what if we throw a bottle of our latest addiction
e.g alcohol, emotional abuse, depression,
pain, hate, wrath
at our children. there's a reason
we are a hypothetical...
vi.
you will never make us feel less
(impending)a(crushing)l(burning)o(draining)n(hurting)e(inevitable)
but we will make you feel exactly
precisely,
like us.
worthless.
vii.
we are animal people
flashes of the wild, and feral; elusive
attractive
and you are drawn to this,
like a pair of grabby hands to a zoo
to petting a declawed tiger
exotic. we don't live long in cages.
viii.
we will never tell you
we won't love you
and you will try to ignore it
but we want you to love us
and we want to love you
(we know better, which
makes this all the better a crime)
ix.
you might be able to give us love, but
all we will give you is something that doesn't make sense
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