We Are Ships Crashing in the Night

And I can’t save us

Ben Kassoy
Human Parts
Published in
2 min readJan 31, 2020

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Photo: Sundaram Ramaswamy/Flickr

My memory

of you is like money in a glass case in the sea: beautiful, untouchable, distorted, seductive, sinking. Or maybe it’s money dropped out of a helicopter into the sea and I’m on some twisted game show frantically grasping for bills and trying not to drown.

I can’t

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Ben Kassoy
Human Parts

Poet, writer, author of THE FUNNY THING ABOUT A PANIC ATTACK -- available now! www.benkassoy.com/books