often when it comes to new(s), it can only be "press next". search for key words, delete all evidence: from the spaces between lips to the tightness in chests. downsize hearts so they're not weighed down with different definitions of love and the rest. make room for now's supposed best. shed. organs and limbs cut and bent. reinvent how to stuff and hide under beds. rather than learning to be besotted in and out with stripped and undressed. we're struggling to reach the future's 'perfect' because we never learned how to gently hold past t e n s e. this is the grammar we're taught on repeat and never forget. how to feature writers of chapters that our world continues to repent.
