I hate and love. Explain that star-crossed pair.
I cannot. That’s my little cross to bear.
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
Further Reading
What We Want
by Maya Pindyck
Peaches overflow the given bowl: a gift from two lovers no longer in love. One remarried a restaurant hostess. The other found new life in Connecticut. It’s cold for the first time this October. My coat fails my neck— I clutch its collar close and slip my fingers through the knit, […]
The Gospel of Dearth
by Joshua Bernstein
“You have to be wealthy in order to be great.” – Donald Trump, campaign speech, Bismarck, North Dakota, May 26, 2016 In The Power Elite, his 1956 study of the powerful’s manipulation of the powerless, C. Wright Mills, the American sociologist, sounded what would probably be his most devastating critique of ingrained assumptions about wealth: […]
Unrequited
by Kelly Miller
I’m masturbating across the hall from her dying. I’ve just finished giving her a bed bath. With that crazy half-detachment required when someone you love has stopped being that person. And has become instead this sickness. A moany dissolving body to be turned and agitated and tended. She can’t take soap or touch. I squeezed water from a soft […]
