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She Call Me “Heartbreaker”
It started with Jay Z’s verse, in Mariah Carey’s Heartbreaker. I had heard it thousands of times, but that time, in the midst of my own misery, and eventual heartbreak, I heard it, as if it was speaking to me directly. Shopping in solitude, because it had been an hour since I’d been adored, and…
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The Queen of Cluster C
I have… I have a thing that I’m not ready to discuss out loud, because it means I have to leave her behind, the girl I always thought I was. I am… I am not okay, and apparently, that’s okay, but it seems very not okay, when everyone socially distances from my crisis, like I’m…
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I’ve Been To The Doctor, and Ignored Everything He Said
So, It was you. You, who never left, leaking emotions by my side, burrowing inside me, breaking me until I have no choice but submission. You, who never left, latching on, lashing out, leaking emotion, in a confusing cycle, until everyone else leaves, and it’s just you and me. You. Me. You ask me, with…