We woke up the next morning as Jack and Sally. Our identities were lost,
our new ones taken. We lived in our own town. Blood tears streamed from our
eyes burying deep through skin and into magnificent, radiant bone. Tear
stained photos of older day littered the sheets, flowing down to the floor.
Our breathing kept them up. His great arms prevented my own body from
falling off the rigid mountain we rarely left. His pretty hands supported
me. The eyes of a thousand dreams were my source of relief, and sometimes
the sleep I received. He called me fragile, perfect. I was tiny, he said
with the best of intentions. He said I used to pure, but then he came. Then
his clear, straight voice laughed like no other can. Sometimes great
wonderment was put upon me. Great wonderment of how his thin body held me
so close. So close I was thin. I was almost thin like him but he was still
Junkie Thin. His body was almost as pretty as his personality. I saw his
bones through tight transparent skin. He saw my years of lies through my
conscious stretched almost to the breaking the point. We shared
embarrassment over these sensitive subjects.
One night we watched rain. We sat on picnic table on the park let our skin
get soaked through. The rain was pretty. It was beautiful. The sweet taste
stung our eyes and pleased our mouths. The pretty rain was dry and smelled
like a savory summer day. I wanted to bottle the evening like a snow globe.
Whenever the sun broke out, I'd shake that night and feel his love like
rain and the rain like his voice. His peppermint and cologne smell wrapped
around me as we circled back to our mountain pinnacle. I tried to do the
same to him with solace of songs.
