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matt r 2d
dear Me,

another day of the rise&fall, and how do you feel? i am not a lover of narrative, but let me clear in my mind:

I woke up three times last night. it's been a common occurence recently, but never the same time. you'd think there are only so many times one person can wake up in a night but nothing feels the same; yesterday's two is todays three.

the waking is fine (I have always been clear about My love of the pursuit of living; I was never tired of it, and every moment has always been a gift.) now, though, I am tired of the very window of realisation that the day is real. do you understand? waking is parasympathetic & wonderful. it happens to Me. the sun, the birds, the music. it all happens to everyone, and it always will. even the deep stretching, the yawning, will happen before I am truly awake.

but today, like clockwork, there was the day. My mam always told Me that I was naturally a depressive like her, and that I had all her worst sides. I disagree with the latter, but to think she feels like this too makes me want to sit between her legs on the sofa like I used to when I was young, and tell her how much I love her. I can't though, and My mind knows that.

it's always love, see? I feel like I just have too much of it. I feel slightly overfilled and quite precariously placed. I realise what that means to say, and I hope my family and friends feel the love I feel for them, but it does not feel enough. That is something to say.

romanticism, though, is reason I will spill. I have written a lot of poetry about the girl I fell in love with this year, she used to read them, and I really felt she was it. I think she understood Me. That is to say she does not read them anymore. it's hard to feel anything after the riveting certainty I felt with her.

it's always love. one day I will learn to love Myself, or find love, or maybe neither or maybe both. today, though, I am alone and the day is here.

write soon.
matt r 2d
write like expansion                     (the difference
                                                     b­etween
                                             my love & others)
an instant flash,it
is        a shooting
inevitability                          & fills the form of
                                            its space       like
                                                love    is lemonade.
there is no slow burn
,not here. only there.
only where she ripens                 the next ready
                                                   set of citrus
                                                        to­ ****.
matt r 3d
as if painted by chalk
     crags of sound mind
lean over me.        i say

that's a lot for one
man to-

           & a fat lavender
rock falls into a lake..
david berman,you always were
matt r 3d
it is newness of feeling
good. silverring day, and i
do miss you dearly, makes
a waking breeze a luxury.

sevens get easier, it will
all be okay, but then all
i see is leaves in tandem.
sulferring,harsh newness.
matt r 4d
prayers seep in,under
the window frame; it is

sanctimonious to say
the least. when i admire

the church spire,i see it
all lined up. it will come

like morning,red&glory
us,such is    the loving
everything is so far removed
matt r 5d
& no break in the night

crease the crisp
            sleeves of it

pocket firebugs too.

my living room     it is
       red as all finality

see     outthere. dances
everywhere      & it is      
     
   oh    such a thing

                        love    me
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