My boyfriend Peterās like smoke, heās elusive. He doesnāt always carry his phone.
Thereās a crosswalk in Tokyo, itās in all the movies. The light changes and hundreds of people walking in different directions meet - but they donāt collide - they make room for each other, flowing around each other like water.
Peter and I make room for each other. Then we come together and we make something. Weāre of such different textures - we come from stark counterpoints but somehow, we mesh.
Heās the first person I go to with an idea because I trust him and I think he understands me. Heās my secret weapon. His advice is a coin Iām careful with.
Heās gone through the long slog and achieved a dream. And he did it poor. He fought a guerilla war with almost no resources. He lived in crowded spaces, existed on Ramen noodles and saltine crackers, taking any job to cover.
Heās practical, goal oriented and he can be unsympathetic. Heāll whisper, āNutup up, tinkerbell - youāre such a baby,ā but there's a supportive energy to it - and heās usually right. He heralds a reality Iām not always used to.
Anyway, he was smoky tonight. I couldnāt reach him. Sometimes we go over a week without talking (I'm not always reachable either) and when we do, it feels intimate and victory-like.
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Song for this:
Come in from the cold by Marc Broussard
One Two Three by Hooverphonic
BLT Merriam Webster word of the day challenge: Herald: "to give notice of."