I Knew The Beginning And The End

I Wish There Were A Class Where We Could Just Keep Going Around The Circle. Around And Around, Until We Had Finally Said Everything About Ourselves.

We Really Wanted To Know All The Unknowable Things About Each Other And How We Were The Same And How We Were Different, If We Even Were, Maybe Nobody Is.

Life Is Just This Way, Broken, And I Am Crazy To Hope For Something Else.

I Nodded, Pretending I Was Relaxed. I Watched The Sunlight Sparkling On The Water And Practiced Mind-body Integration For A Few Seconds By Quietly Hyperventilating.

She Bludgeoned Me With A Look Of Such Limitless Compassion That I Immediately Began To Cry.