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  • Fatally Optimistic

    I went out with this guy once who ended up blocking me from his phone. He was very tall and good looking and ended up saying he didn’t know how to block people from his phone so it was weird that I was blocked. I just said whatev and let it go because the distance…

  • The Environmentalist

    An environmentalist college professor that he was told me It’s called climate change, not global warming Some places get colder I’m getting colder My seas are rising and my summers are shortening The end of summer came a month earlier each year, 2008-2010 August -> July -> June 2008 -> 2009 -> 2010 Next year,…

  • a transcript of the end

    [begin transcript] me: How’s work tonight? him: pretty slow him: what u doing up [it’s 2:02 am on a Sunday] me: Good question. I keep waking up. me: Are we gonna still see each other or…? him: Yah I have to you about that but don’t want to do it over text me: ok, not…

  • punch

    The punchline wasn’t the real punchline Or at least it wasn’t funny She wept. Like most things It’s what comes after the punchline that matters most She wept. For him.

  • Girl with Bad Attitude Crossing the Street

    Here’s a technique they use: In a perfect world, what would happiness, togetherness, the best date ever, etc. look like? Maybe the question helps some people, but it pisses me off. 1) Before I can even begin to answer the question, I have to imagine a perfect world, which is such a huge issue I…

  • Completely Pointless Ruminations (as most ruminations are)

    This whole time, I was thinking I had only recently licked my wounds from the ex of 2008. Then I remembered that last November I was developing a solid relationship with a guy who would 3 months later leave to go to Japan for a couple of years (aka the guy who left the country…

  • Ways to Let Him* Know You Care

    *Him being a clueless male and not my faithful dear readers. Say okay to cuddling, as in his definition of cuddling, not yours. Say alright to things you’d rather not do. Send a defaced Hallmark card. (Specifically, if you are sending said card to a Straight Man, be sure to include “fuck”; otherwise, he will…

  • A Relationship Death Poem

    A Relationship Death Poem because in times of stress one has to fall back on what one knows and everyone could use a little death now and again. A Relationship Death Poem that’s not really a poem at all but an exercise in self-soothing behavior. A Relationship Death Poem because I like it dark and…

  • Interstating

    It was not guilt or compassion or passion or curiosity that drove him It was happenstance that he saw me on the interstate He thought of me only because I came into his line of vision

  • Rod Stewart and I Want to Know if We’ve Told You Lately…

    Have I told you* lately how much I like excuses? Especially ones involving elderly parents and work? Have I told you how classy it is for you to invite me to hit you up if I get bored at ***-***-**** without your knowing or asking for my name? I suppose I could call myself “you…