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on love, and falling in love with it

some nights I look at my hands and wonder what it’d be like to have somebody’s fingers intertwined with mine, how it would feel to have a warm body pressed against mine in the mornings after I wake up. some nights I read love poems and think about the way I’ve always hesitated to write one because I don’t know what it feels like to be so in love that anywhere is home when I’m with them, even when it’s 3 am and we’re stuck waiting for a delayed plane or when we’re eating uncooked instant noodles in our new apartment or when we’re calling each other from opposite sides of the world, separated by miles and miles of sky and space and distance. some nights I just think about writing and how I’d like to write an anthology of poetry about them. I’d call it ‘things you said’, and it would be part of every poem’s title. things you said at the kitchen table. things you said when you thought I was asleep. things you said before tipping my chin up to press your lips to mine. things you said while trying to find the coffee machine at seven in the morning. I think my favourite one would probably be ‘things you said you would never do for me but did them anyway’. but some nights, I think I’m just in love with the idea of love more than anything else.

amateur poetry checklist

◘ start your poem with the word “and”

◘ speak exclusively in first and second person as if every poem is a personal letter

◘ use coffee and cigarettes and whiskey to denote pain and maturity

◘ throw in as many over-the-top words as possible, like "ethereal” or “wanderlust”

◘ mention greek figures like apollo or icarus to add depth and culture

◘ continuously start lines with “listen” to make sure your reader is still paying attention

◘ avoid using capitalization or punctuation in any situation

◘ put line breaks completely at random to break the reader’s concentration

◘ finish your poem by repeating the same line three times

◘ if you can’t think of a title, just use a line from a song from your favorite band

and that’s it! if you follow these simple steps, you too can have an excerpt from a book you’ll never write

"At 15

I still believed

in magic.

Not Disney magic

necessarily but

the world is

so big

and

so strange.

Why can't there

be fairies?

Maybe Neverland

is real,

and we've just been

following the wrong

stars."

Quotes from the poetry book I'll never write