your words cut deep, deep in the flesh of my soul and that was how it’s always been, I guess. And we were just waiting for words to go between the words we said, to add up to the little things that brought us together, saying words to each other slowly, without affixing other words that can drive us away from each other, like when the love was said, and when the love was gone, and all we ever did was say ‘I don’t love you no more,’ instead of what we always told each other, as if the words ‘don’t’ and ‘no’ are always just negatively inserted between the cartridges of our vocabulary, and instead of loving each other more and more, we settled on elisions, thrown between our words, our sentences, our 5 AM conversations, our used-to-be-connections. your words cut deep and we tear our tangled limbs. elision. that’s what it will be.