Tag: deja vu
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Portuguese Letters
She was wooed. She fell in love. Things got hot and heavy. Then without explanation she was brutally ghosted. The timeless relatability of this tale made me so grateful I was already booed up. I never want to deal with dating again.
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The Whole Meal
I want to be partners no matter what. If my person is fighting for their life I’m gonna be right beside them swinging at their enemies. When I’m in, I’m all in. There is no à la carte menu.
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Nevermind
These connections– the meaning of Nirvana, these men who ended their own suffering with guns, the dead men I don’t have to call on Father’s Day, aided by the black clouds of grief and isolation in my Ponta Delgada home all tangled together into dark poetry that June.
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Drought, Deluge, and Desire
There are different levels of separation. Sometimes it feels like only miles between us, but by the end of his busy summers, it feels like we’re standing on different planets. I begin to wonder if I’d made him up entirely.
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Hello World!
Journaling is how I process my life. From my perspective, every word is completely true. Memories are never completely true. This should all be taken with a few grains of salt, and maybe a bit of tequila, too.