SUDDEN MANHATTAN, Meaghan O'Connell
“You should be in love,” he tells me We look at each other with guilt and turn away. (What revelations I suffer at your hands). Every time I cross the street I glance sidelong into traffic hoping you are in all of the cars. Behind me on the sidewalk people say hello And for days after, my heart stops. I turn around to look, brightening the way only a man who loved me would recognize But it’s Only, always, Only Always A man into his cellphone. “Hello!” he says, So sincerely that it hurts.dear coworkers, i know you tell me i shouldn’t post poetry anyway but I WROTE this and it stripped all the line breaks, which were all wrong anyway and this has really given me new perspective and im changing it around now but still!
love it. the whole reason I joined tumblr was because I felt so inspired by the writings of this lady. so I thank you, dear stranger, for giving me that wonderful feeling of “yes, me too” over and over again.
