Essays and Bad Ideas

Lovely, Stupid Things

I torture you and you pray to me in apology. I break you and you hobble to me for protection. I abandon you and you lose yourself in my wake. I debase the coin of your virtue, and you respect me for the clever theft. I forget sometimes you are human, and those are the times you like me best.

You need never ask what I feel for you, dear girls. Whatever else could I feel, save love and contempt?