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Natasha commented on the post, solution 7 months, 4 weeks ago
“We can fix this, we can fix this, we can fix this thing,” you say over and over, like we’re not broken beyond repare, like that’s not broken glass on the floor, like that ringing in our ears isn’t the gap between us growing larger.
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Natasha commented on the post, darlings 9 months, 3 weeks ago
When I was a child you called me your darling duck and you were a child then too, do you remember? You liked to pretend you weren’t, of course, because that’s how you are. If you don’t wear rain boots when the […]
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Natasha commented on the post, hearing 1 year, 1 month ago
I’m not hearing what you’re saying, not one word of it. All I can think about is that time when my dog ran away and you drove around with me for three hours in the dark until my mom called and said that the […]
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Natasha commented on the post, poster 1 year, 1 month ago
You’ve got a poster of a photograph by Robert Doisnos up above your bed. It’s two dogs, sitting side by side on a street in Paris. We’ll go there someday, you tell me as we’re lying on your bed staring at the […]
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Natasha commented on the post, scorn 1 year, 1 month ago
Don’t you dare scold me, not now, as you’re standing there wearing two different colored socks and half the buttons of your shirt undone. You didn’t make the bed this morning and you always leave your half-eaten […]
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Natasha commented on the post, slight 1 year, 2 months ago
Slight of hand, isn’t that what they say? It has something to do with card players or card tricks or people with butterfingers who drop things and catch them at the last minute. But it feels like the way I can’t […]
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Natasha commented on the post, puddle 1 year, 2 months ago
You spill your cereal and now there’s a puddle of milk and lucky charms on the floor and I want to scream at you, because I’m tired of taking care of you and cleaning up after you and making sure you don’t lock […]
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Natasha commented on the post, willful 1 year, 2 months ago
You do everything forcefully, with purpose. You look straight ahead as you walk, never at the ground, and you look everyone in the eye. It’s the most disconcerting thing in the entire world, talking to you. I […]
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Natasha commented on the post, flip 1 year, 2 months ago
You piss me the flip off, you say.
Are you serious?
What?
We’re having this huge fight and you can’t even cuss at me?
I don’t want to cuss at you.
Why not?
Because you don’t deserve it.
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Natasha commented on the post, charms 1 year, 2 months ago
You think you can just smile that smile and cast your charms on me and I’ll follow you home like the dog that I found on the corner of 8th and Washington last week. But I know your smile’s hiding something and […]
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Natasha commented on the post, sweat 1 year, 3 months ago
You’re sweaty you’re sweaty and it’s gross it’s so gross which doesn’t make any sense at all, because you think it’s cute when I sweat, and I think it’s gross that you think that. Our friends laugh at us and our […]
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Natasha commented on the post, lantern 1 year, 3 months ago
The paper bag lanterns line the walkway to the beach and it reminds me of a movie, of a summer’s evening with the wind blowing and clothes discarded by skinny dippers and light kisses on the porch late at night, […]
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Natasha commented on the post, generator 1 year, 3 months ago
The generator is working its ass off, or it would be if it had one, that’s what you’ve said, if you were here. But you’re not and the power’s gone out again, so I can’t call you to tell you I wish you were here, […]
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Natasha wrote about the word oil 1 year, 5 months ago
We ruin the cookies because we don’t oil the pan first, but you eat them anyway. They’re burnt on the bottom and we have to pretty much cut them off of the pan, but you eat them like they’re the best things you’ve ever tasted. “Mmm,” you say, and I laugh, and I’m pretty sure [...]
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Natasha wrote about the word trunk 1 year, 5 months ago
You open the trunk of the car and it’s filled with everything of mine that’s collected at your apartment over the past year and a half, and I look in and there’s my soft blue sweatshirt and that teddy bear you won for me at the fair and I think, it’s amazing how a relationship, [...]
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Natasha wrote about the word step 1 year, 10 months ago
Step by step was a tv show and it’s also the name of a New Kids on the Block song, and that’s because it’s a cliched phrase that means to take things one step at a time, but that’s also a cliched phrase. Is there a way to define a cliche without using another cliche? [...]
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Natasha wrote about the word muse 1 year, 10 months ago
I hate this word because I hate this band and I hate the idea that someone can be your muse and inspire you because I think you learn how to do your art, which in my mind is writing because that’s the way I’m thinking right now, from experience and from reading. Of course, you [...]
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Natasha wrote about the word band 1 year, 10 months ago
We band together against the past and brace ourselves for the future. What the fuck does that even mean? I keep stringing these words together, trying to make them meaningful, inspiring, sturdy. I need them to manipulate, persuade, encourage. I need them to do more than I can do myself.
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Natasha wrote about the word thunder 1 year, 10 months ago
Your feet thunder up the steps as you climb them. Your shoes are heavy and they weigh you down. They’re full of thoughts you can’t let go of and all the things you wish you’d said to me last night, last week, the last time we talked. You’re thundering up the stairs towards my door [...]
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Natasha wrote about the word lightning 1 year, 10 months ago
Lightning only strikes once, isn’t that what they always say? But I know that isn’t true. There are people, I’ve read about them, who’ve been struck by lightning several times. The first time, it scrambles your brain chemistry, or the electrons or the nerves or something, and then the lightning is attracted to you, again [...]
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