he cursed me in clumsy cursive on a note left for me to find "you are a child in this world where we always have to part with the ones we love. be happy." he was 27, tall and dazzling, a full chinese calendar between us. we went down on each other that night. an interc(o)urse of sorts.
parting is splitting your life (i'm a child on this earth) like an earthworm. both of us wriggling away.
parting is breaking (with the ones we love) a bone. no telling if we heal.