A couple can share an apartment for years and still keep a small country on the wrong side of the kitchen counter.
Most evenings nobody crosses it.
EP 08 · Order was a cover story
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There is a kind of love that asks the room to stay quiet so the other person can keep not looking at himself.
The quiet is the work. Nobody notices the work.
EP 07 · Loving Someone in the Hallway
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The cultural script offers two doors.
One stays closed and calls itself loyalty.
The other opens and calls itself freedom.
Both are about position. Neither is about presence.
The letter goes underneath.
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A taxi at three in the morning,
a gold chain warming against the collarbone,
and a not tonight that arrived without rehearsal.
EP06 · The Weight of Choosing Again
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