20 STARTERS FROM LOVE LETTERS OR SUICIDE NOTES
adapted from doc luben’s amazing spoken word poem found here
- ’ don’t freak out. ‘
- ‘ we both know this has been coming for a long time. ‘
- ‘ i’ve been staying awake at night, wondering if i should tell you. ‘
- ‘ i bought the kind of crackers you can eat. they are in the hall cupboard. ‘
- ‘ now that we have watched all the episodes of _____, i do not know what else to do next. ‘
- ‘ i always imagined this would happen without warning, like suddenly on an ocean cliff-side. ‘
- ‘ this is the kind of thing where waiting for the time to be right would just mean waiting forever. ‘
- ‘ iv’e just been too afraid for too long. ‘
- ‘ it can only be me that did it. ‘
- ‘ it’s the kind of thing a ghost would do, to prove to the living that they are still there. ‘
- ‘ i am haunting my own home. ‘
- ‘ i cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all the things we didn’t say until it was too late. ‘
- ‘ i keep imaging my furniture in your apartment. ‘
- ‘ i wonder how many likes this will get on facebook. ‘
- ‘ my dad always used to tell the same joke, but i can’t remember the punchline. ‘
- ‘ the ivy grew too fast. ‘
- ‘ how can something be there, & then not be there ? ‘
- ‘ how do we forgive ourselves for all the tings we did not become ? ‘
- ‘ i wanted them, but thought they were too brash. ‘
- ‘ i knew that you would like them. ‘