WHY DOES ANYONE RESIST? ❋ Kristina Mahler

I kept thinking it would be better by now
If we held on until summer it would make us happy

Conveniently forgetting that misery and pain exist in all seasons

I keep a journal of your affections
It is too hard to leave you when everything is so green

We wish for painless separation,
For 10 hours of heavy ambient rainfall with thunder and
the way we could sleep before we knew things about each other

Sitting in the backyard the cicadas wail like sirens
You tell me I am too picky about fruit
I laugh and you get mad because
I won’t explain the joke