Nick Cave’s Handwritten Dictionary of Words, 1984.
I admire and love you
In which Mr. Darcy simultaneously confesses his love and puts down his love.
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
by Haruki Murakami
One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.
Words
A string of letters
Empty space
And then another bundle.
Forming a necklace
a bracelet
adorning pale collar bones
bony wrists.
So beautiful
So refined
But slowly the thread of letters tightens
The gaps dissapear
Suffocating
Choking
Words