Month: January 2026
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first loves
we don’t talk about them muchthe ones who taught our heartshow to mispronounce forever.they smelled like folded dresses,faintly of naphthaleneand said things like alwaysand promiseand meant ituntil they didn’t.and now every songis a door we don’t open,every photographa city we can’t go back to.but godfor a momentdidn’t it feellike we invented love?
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the math of us
there used to be fourthat’s how most families beginfour peoplesharing one roofone tableone stubborn historyand no one tells youthat fouris just a temporary numbera seasona brief agreementbefore the worldstarts doing its subtractionbecause timedoesn’t askwho’s readyit just movessteadilylike it’s got somewhere to beand one dayfour becomes threethen twothen oneand the last person standingdoesn’t get a medalor…
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