"Two people can stand under the same sun and cast different futures for every generation rewrites desire ours just added more exits."
- Poet
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we learned to live on breadcrumbing to orbit without return haunting for love a kittenfisher smiled through borrowed summers a catfisher built an entire moon we endured benching cushioning roster dating— hearts lined as spare chairs after the guests had gone I practiced love bombing you future faking the skilled preferred negging one small faultline opening under load and a place to live inside it we drifted through situationships through talking stages through the annual migration of ghosting, zombieing and hoovering a hard launch a soft launch then pocketing banksying taught us how to leave without leaving ghostlighting taught us how to return without arriving meanwhile the wildflowerers flowered the slow daters kept their own time every exclusive promise stalled at a DTR frozen at the lip of the relationship escalator watching the steel teeth flatten and disappear red flags snapped in the wind green flags semaphored beige flags overgrown in the yard one night the throngers argued hot takes beneath the stars I felt the ick you went delulu someone else shrekking at last laughed with their whole strange face and for a moment nobody was performing just two people standing outside the slang while every label we had worn blew past— confetti and bleached receipts a failure to launch breaking open in beach grass
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