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Category: Cath Crowley

It’s when I’m around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now

anxiety, anxiousness, lol, lovers

You’re not like other girls, you know that, right?’ Ed asks.‘I’ve been aware of the problem,’ I tell him.

different, lovers

Now you’re dead, and I’m buried.

If my like for you was a footy crowd, you’d be deaf cos of the roar.And if my like for you were a boxer, there’d be a dead guy lying on the floor.And if my like for you were sugar, you’d lose your teeth before you were twenty. And if my like for you was money, let’s just say you’d be spending plenty.

daisy, dylan, love, poem, poetry-love

Were you in love with Emma?” I ask.”I was hard-core obsessed,” he says without thinking about it. “Not in love.” “What’s the difference?”He’s about to throw a stone at ta yard light but stops. “Prison,” he says, and puts the stone in his pocket.

love, obsession, prison

That’s what we think because we can’t imagine what it’s like to not exist.

afterlife, death

I didn’t say you weren’t smart. I said you were stupid.”“I guess I’m too dumb to see the difference.

dump, lol, stupidity

Dad and I leave town in the early dark. It’s the second Sunday of the holidays, and we pack up the old blue car with enough clothes for summer and hit the road. It’s so early he’s wiping hills of sand piled in the corners of his eyes. I wipe a few tears from mine. Tears don’t pile, though. They grip and cling and slide in salty trails that I taste until the edge of the city.

imagery, sleepy, tears

Have you ever done something that you were really ashamed of? I mean somehing so bad you felt sick just thinking about it?”Everyone has. Why, what’d you do?”I didn’t say goodbye to Mum.”That’s not so bad.”Did you say goodbye to your mum before she left?’ I’d never asked Martin about this before. I didn’t want to hear the answer.’She left before I had a chance.”Oh.”That’s what I like about you, Faltrain.You always know just what to say.

foot-in-mouth, secrets

You can’t drive them around in the getaway van.’ ‘How about we don’t call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.’ ‘So what should we call it?’ ‘How about the van?’ ‘It doesn’t change what it is and that it’s a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it.

Tonight’s going to be one of those things that seem to last forever.

Do many guys ask you out twice?””Only the ones with balls.