“ But damn if there isn't anything sexier than a slender boy with a handgun, a fast car, a bottle of pills. ”
Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.
~ Richard Siken
If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.
This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.
Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.