[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

— the undiscovered first, feist.

and that’s number three, three for the year. three people who have said to me: oh, i love you so much, so much it hurts me, but you don’t love me. and the hurting hurts, and i thought you’d love me back, but you don’t so i’m walking away from you.

i don’t mean for this to happen. but a problem that keeps happening over and over means you’re asking for it in some way. and i love my friends, but i won’t love you more than as much as i can, and that’s not the what you want from me. so why does everyone keep asking for more than you know i can give? and why am i letting you in? just so you can want more, and then leave?

whine whine whine whatever.

“It behooves you to be
Generous. You have not been completely
Perfect either; with your troublesome body
You have done things you shouldn’t
Discuss in poems. Therefore
Call out to him over the open water, over the bright
Water
With your dark song, with your grasping,
Unnatural song—passionate,
Like Maria Callas. Who
Wouldn’t want you? Whose most demonic appetite
Could you possibly fail to answer?”

— from penelope’s song, louise gluck

wordpress analytics