share your favorite things with the temporary people in your life staple your favorite songs to the foreheads of people you've known for two weeks dance around in artificial lightning and touch them for as long as you can take pictures with disposable cameras, pin them to cork-boards and write down their dates scrawl their names in sharpie ink on your wall, ignore when your mother gets mad at you for it watch your favorite movies with them kiss them during your favorite part write down the taste write down what you hear fill notebooks with their sentences take their hand and lead them to your favorite places count the blades of grass under you record the rocks the tree leaves the sand the hardwood floor read them your favorite books tell them your theories match them to main characters and laugh when they try to imitate their dialect read them your poetry whisper your favorite words in their ear pass them notes with your favorite lyrics give them tastes of your favorite ice cream flavor promise yourself not to forget their disgusted face at your favorite weird food smear the color yellow into their palms because it has always been your favorite trace the lines that crack the paint give them your favorite sweatshirt let them make it their home smell them on you the next time you wear it let them enter your world and include them in your list of favorites and then
when they break your heart, you will be forced to conform to the sadness you feel you will have to turn off the radio when that song comes on and you see their smile in the melody you will have to pay for a new camera burn pictures and blame the smoke for your teary eyes stock up on white-out and erase those dates when they pass the next year you will stay inside all day and your hands will shake you will have to paint a new color on your wall just to quit staring at their name while you try to fall asleep you will paint three, four, five coats atop their handwriting and at night you will still be able to see it you will have to go to the movies and categorize new favorite scenes when that movie plays on sunday morning you will taste them and it will taste like cold coffee and eventually you will be strong enough to change the channel you will tear pages out, buy new notebooks drive by your favorite places and don't stop you will have to read new pages find new characters its okay if you catch yourself running over the spine of the book you woke them up to read at four AM buy a dictionary and find new favorite words make up new favorite words and drop them into casual conversation eat new icecream, try more weird foods at restaurants you can't pronounce look at colors more closely and determine a new favorite buy new clothes ones that smell like mass production and the local mall you will leave the world you gave to them and you will create a new world with new favorites with new songs, words, memories, places, books, movies, foods with new pieces of you and you will let someone new enter that world they will tear chips of paint off of your wall and ask you what your favorite color is its okay to hesitate say blue.