so i started this new hobby, where i try to erase "bitter" out of every dictionary i find, but sometimes it doesn't always disappear and it sits there with eraser shavings in different shades of gray like the collection of Polaroids i keep safe in my desk drawer. in this occasion i will just take my handy - dandy sharpie to color it in to leave it up to the imagination or trial and error, like new cleaning products for the women who are dissatisfied with being homebodies, but i'm telling them not to be bitter, not to be this six letter word because 28,835 days is an awful long time to carry such an empty suitcase, and if some of you don't understand that number, an average woman's life expectancy is 79 years of age, so i hope i calculated that correctly because i'm not so good at math, but i'm not saying all of us are average, since sometimes we break too soon and the bitter takes over the sweet like the winter takes over the fall, and sometimes we are so free it gives us a few more days to really feel alive. i just don't want to be bitter, because the dictionary is filled with so many other words like laugh and lust and flesh and warmth. so i think this book can do without just one word.
i guess i'm just a dreamer, i've always wanted to fly to the moon and swim with jellyfish, just to say i never was stung by the globes of the water but someone always told me to tread lightly, like there was broken glasses that could get me anytime, but that didn't stop the birds from flights or landings as electricity pushed through their legs and the weather never stopped the wars we all soon forgot about. we are forgetful people, misplacing our keys and hearts in the rooms where we felt the most in.
so when i go about my business (and the times could go slow), i will reenter each book to find each word that could someday somehow direct me to "i'm sorry."