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3 cures for love sickness

  • Moe Godat
  • Sep 23, 2017
  • 1 min read

Sometimes the only way to overcome your sickness is to embrace it. One way to cure it? Throw it up on paper.

Sniffles

I remember

My nose in his

sweaty hair

sniffing out

hot dogs

dust

salt

softball

pulling me into

how it used to be

forgetting where

I am.

cavity

My earth spins

as I lay in bed

eating

thinking

and mindlessly watching

TV

a method for

coping

a distraction

to take my

focus from

my missing

heart

Toxins

Red eating white

leaves burning

smoke

kisses both at

the same

time

Weeks organized with

pill boxes

filled

meant to be

swallowed dry

to feel

whole

Each day holding

a new

ache

stacking up over

time

teaching me to

multiply

Ashes mix with

spit

on her

tongue

making ink

writing it down

like the

cure

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