DDB Chronicles: Part 8

Are you really happier without me? Isn't there some magic you miss?

DDB Chronicles: Part 7

This misery has no bounds, no form and no promise of dissipation.  I wish I was you.

DDB Chronicles: Part 6

i don't want to feel this way anymore! my romantic visions are hollow. and the energy expended so futile. what kind of adaptation is this? to mourn the lost with such vehemence? you're not coming back. but your breath makes it seem possible. can i will you dead in my mind? can i re-route the circuitry? fortified walls instead of open meadows. bones and dust instead of your warm blood.

DDB Chronicles: Part 5

I remember mornings most, in our kitchen.

The quality of light was always so superb!

You were always topless and vulnerable on those mornings.

Those mornings, I loved you most.

DDB Chronicles: Part 4

Do you remember that time I was disconsolate in the rain? I'd been on your stoop for at least four hours, chain-smoking, waiting, desperate for you to come home. It was shortly after the elections, if I recall.

When I finally saw your truck, after the hundreds that had passed by before, I was overjoyed. And you were overjoyed!

You held me tight and promised it would be OK.

And it was!

DDB Chronicles: Part 3

Shh! This is a secret!

Everyday I talk to people way more rational than you. They're lawyers for Christ's sake. In you, I wasn't looking for rationality so much as soul-sustenance. Do you know what that is? That's when you put your brain away for a while and just feel. We felt pretty good.

DDB Chronicles: Part 2

Do you remember our first kiss? Of course you do! It was fucking epic! You walked me home to Fuller Street and you were ready to say goodnight like a couple times before. But this time was different. There was a current in the air. And you went for it! Bless your heart, you went for it! You connected the two electrodes and I just stood there dumb-founded. This type of shit doesn't happen every day. Your upper lip enveloped my lower lip, there was the slightest essence of your tongue . . . And I was mesmerized, dumbfounded. I walked to the elevator and I shook. I shook all the way up to my apartment, grinning. Smiling the biggest smile I'd smiled in a while. And that's just how love happens.