If the distance between where they are going and where you are standing cannot be measured, is an awkward bridge a bridge that goes nowhere?
There are three laws of planetary motion: The planets orbit the sun in ellipses. As a planet moves around its orbit, it sweeps out equal areas in equal times. More distant planets orbit the sun at slower average speeds.
I meet him through work, and he does not realize that I am not willing to be a mother to his daughter. He fills me, but goes limp in the car. He buys a new car and sends me a text every once in a while to ask how I am. I stop responding.
My propensity for Jewish men leads me to him. Which leads me right back to where I started.
There was a time when I thought I would never get any better or worse. I would remain the same for the rest of my life and I was okay with this. I remember always wanting to marry a man who wrote like William Carlos Williams. I remember how beautiful I felt when I spoke French. Then I woke up older and had no idea who I was or who I was becoming.
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