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What I Wrote About You Three Weeks Ago

And what I said the week after that

Ben Kassoy
Human Parts
2 min readJul 9, 2021

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Three weeks ago I wrote

about how “perfect” is so subjective and vague and impossible and stupid and how you are precisely it in so many ways.

and the week after that I said I don’t think I can do this anymore.

My Uncle Mike created a new tagline for Chili’s that goes

“You’re gonna hate the way you feel. I guarantee it.”

and I think it applies here too.

Maybe you’re thinking

Where do you go to, my lovely

When you’re alone in your bed?

Tell me the thoughts that surround you

I want to look inside your head

and I’m thinking the same thing.

I am a person who doesn’t believe in destiny and also the person who wrote that

You are fire flower paper blood and I am honey coffee water sun.

Watch witches stir us in a cauldron and fulfill our prophecy as inevitable as time.

And I say I don’t believe in soulmates but I also wrote about how

I’m wandering through the desert carrying the mirage of a mirror and you’re the only one

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Ben Kassoy
Ben Kassoy

Written by Ben Kassoy

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

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