any book recs for me??
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"life was good"
at this point
i'm not entirely
sure
whether that is an
epigraph
or a
eulogy
i'm floating in
limbo
between
wanting to see
who i become
and wanting to
never, ever get there
so i don't have to
face the
impending
disappointment
when i realize that i
am not
who i would like
to be
"life was good"
it's true
life
was
good
it was good on
summer afternoons
the sweet mush of
apricot
stuck between the
toothless gaps
in my child-sized
mouth
it was good on
fall mornings
cycling to school
under crisp winds
and red-orange leaves
humming along to
'i kissed a girl'
even though
back then
i thought i'd never
want to
kiss one
it was good on
spring days
spent lounging on
beaches
around the world
the heat beating down
on skin slathered with
sunblock
that might stop cancer
but certainly didn't stop
sweat
from pouring down
"life was good"
such a simple phrase
yet it encompasses
more than, perhaps
what a
novel
of a thousand pages
could
it's tinged with
melancholy
it's bittersweet
as though someone
poured a glass of
sun-heated
lemon-juice
over the words
but forgot to add
sugar cubes
and yet it's
warm
in a memory-filled
kind of way
because in saying
those three words
you explain
a hundred years of
happiness
"life was good"
i wish for that to be
both the
epigraph
in the story of my life
and the
eulogy
at the end of it—
life was good
life is good
she was good, too
YOU ARE READING
to the dreamers
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