Do not follow your child too closely. Hovering makes it look like something might go wrong, which of course it might, but the point of these events is to pretend it won’t. Maintain a five-foot buffer

Her favorite video was one of a girl getting fucked during a Zoom meeting.

No one has dared come to my front door. No one has dared to meet me face to face. 

They always share their worst secrets with me and look to me for female forgiveness.

I think art is interesting to write about because it’s bound in a certain idealism but scenes can get competitive and toxic.

“If you desire something,” she said, “ask for it with honesty and clear communication. Then accept the answer you receive, whatever it may be.”

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The ladybug nymphs were hatching in the hoop house.

Before the third time I lost my virginity, I recorded myself eating an orange with nothing but my mouth.

The wanting requires an immense amount of theater.

The freedom is almost overwhelming.

You are only who you are to him. Waitresses treat you weird and ask questions..

I don’t fully recall when I realized that the smoke detector was going off

Other times it’s about motels in Nebraska or 
gum ball machines or a close-up of a woman’s 
face.

But reach for it . . .

Tempestuous is the language we carry in our head, the music of new words and lovers, the cities we dip into on a lost weekend. Jeanne, the eponymous narrator of Arielle Burgdorf’s novel Jeanne,

It is the night before I will meet my future ex wife. Neither of the mirrors are skinny.

But also, the clock . . .

It was summer heat 
And the breath of living someone else’s life 

I have been waiting to become a better writer so that I can understand them.