(for Staff Sergeant Joseph William George)
Most people live in between the married and the single life. I want death. I want life. I want my life to be celebrated in death. I just expected you to say something else. I am life. I am death. I am a solitary figure, staggering to reach you if you’d let me. You don’t call me on the telephone, and even though it is raining men I don’t admit addiction. I want to be free, and that is all a single woman wants is to be free, independent, acknowledged, loved, but it is impossible for you to love the public me, all the administration of me, my cruel and cool and bewitching persona. I’d probably love you, if you’d let me. I dream of a dream house of love, a family and children, and I’d dream I’d be a wife, and a lover, and mother, that’s what I’ve dreamed since childhood. You’re perfect, and I’m imperfect, and you’re lovely, but my approach is a family affair.
I’m a scorekeeper, but unloved. You keep all your passion for your girlfriend like when you eat her meat, and sink your teeth into her cooking, and her heart, and bare wrists, and ankles, and dark hair, and her all positive, positively-loving, her positive-outlook on life, I say I’ll take you there, but you don’t care because you have it made with your it-girl, feeling- girl, and she makes eye-contact with your mother when you say my name in their presence, and they roll their eyes heavenward, and I’m a joke. I get that. I understand that. That you’re not mine anymore. You’re too comfortable, and I’m an emotional slob. I don’t want to drag you down. I want to uplift you. I’m too late, that’s all. And filled with half-truths and dark thoughts of cave-dwellings, but you know me better than I know myself. That suicide is on my mind again, that I’m lovesick, and after you to save me. The atmosphere here is of a wedding.

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