Allister Reynolds: <s>your twenty third. and plane tickets.</s>

your twenty third. and plane tickets.

wow, this is so high-school

i remember your twenty-third
from pictures and stories
i remember your friends
from phone calls and walls
i remember our love
in text and speech
i remember the reach
and the beach
mostly, i remember
not remembering
anything
mostly i remember short spurt encounters
and long plane rides
i remember romantic kisses at airports
and long drives home
i remember mixed drinks and sex
i remember short circuit
explosions
of our relationship

i remember pain
and grief
and anger
i remember digesting my heart
in the pit of my stomach

keeping with the theme,
i remember when we tried to make it work
and we only made it worse
all of my best intentions
..wasted on a girl i loved
but hardly knew
you
all my best intentions
i remember
were wasted on you

and now
how
my clouded emotions
and my skewed idea of what a love should be
rapid-fire
with plane rides
and mudslides
in between
never would have worked

vacation love and breast
beating heart from chest

but, i get it
it hurts
and i'll move on

i think

Who is Allister Reynolds?

your twenty third. and plane tickets.