Saturday, December 8, 2007

she will ask you

i like the way she will ask you any question. without any regard to social conventions she will ask what your prescription is for, why you were crying, what that fight was about. and she isn't rude and she is not obtuse. i think that she is honest. she will come into your house for the first time, meet your mother and run her hands over your things. she is perfect posture and confidence without a trace of arrogance. she strings together these words so easily, i cannot imagine her feeling shame or petty embarassment. she is a geniune question, an authentic dislike for indirect communication. her words fly like paper airplanes into the walls, over your head, onto the floor but it doesn't matter. there is no urgency, no desperation, no anxiety about her.

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