13“When it’s all over, we can barely discuss
For one minute only, not with the fortunate only
Thought it could have been something else.”
(Source: perseuslovesandromeda)
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existance is an act of rebellion.”
I love Billy Collins.
The Breather
Just as in the horror movies
when someone discovers that the phone calls
are coming from inside the house
so too, I realized
that our tender overlapping
has been taking place only inside me.
All that sweetness, the love and desire—
it’s just been me dialing myself
then following the ringing to another room
to find no one on the line, well,
sometimes a little breathing
but more often than not, nothing.
To think that all this time—
which would include the boat rides,
the airport embraces, and all the drinks—
it’s been only me and the two telephones,
the one on the wall in the kitchen
and the extension in the darkened guest room upstairs.
“I wanna be with her more, I wanna be with her all the time, and I wanna tell her things I don’t even tell you or mum. And I don’t want her to have another boyfriend. I suppose if I could have all those things, I wouldn’t really mind if I touched her or not.”
“About a Boy”
(via teachingliteracy)
