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The boy I love is up in the gallery
The boy I love is looking at me
There he is, can't you see
Waving his handkerchief
As merry as a robin
That sings on a tree
Loretta, I miss you already. Loretta, I will think of you whenever my eye catches a feather, pulled from the sky, blown off the edge of some bird’s lonely wing.
And yet suddenly, inevitably, the cold hill appears, and your fellow engastrimyths vanish along with their talking dolls.
What speaks instead then is the empty air, and what it says is: “You’re alone. How do you feel about that?”
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.
It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house […] [calling them] where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.
I swear by all that’s dear to me, all I believe in — I swear that I have never loved before as I love you, — with such tenderness — to the point of tears — and with such a sense of radiance.