Phone calls at night when I'm hurriedly scribbling an answer to another math question, pen poised almost comically in midair as the camera dollies around to focus on my stunned expression when your voice enters my consciousness, no, it's not you, fuck, it is you, hello. Merry Christmas, you said, and I find it in me to say the same.
Static fuzzes over your laugh and I know that my mind is fucking with me again, because there is no way in hell you'd call me at eleven. I'm not her, the voice says, and I know the person's right, she's not you. And I fiddle with the car-plate
object d'art sitting on my desk rather innocently, the letters spelling out something I can never do.
S-I-M-P-L-I-F-Y, it urges non-threateningly, and I shove it aside to make space for my new books.
"Merry Christmas," the person that's not you says again, before erupting into a fit of giggles. "I can't believe you thought I was her." After a five-minute long conversation, I hang up, mind almost as numb as my ears. I want to throw something at the wall, but there is nothing remotely throwable around. I count to get rid of my hate, feelings, mishmash of whatever it is churning about in my stomach.
One.
One two three four five six seven eight nine ten.
Won't you come back to me, again?
One two three four five six seven eight nine ten.So much for a better, newer year.
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If I don't believe in love what do you get from me
When I don't believe in love nothing is real for me
If I don't believe in love you're getting too close to me
It's why you have to leave.