Evening Coffee
If I had to kill myself, I would do it in October. The first time I loved was in the fall of 2017. The first time I broke my own heart was in the fall of 2023. I would start the month thinking about when I wrote a song for my first love because I did not know any other way to contain what I had felt. Then I would think about the day he left. And I would mix a drop of poison in my evening coffee. Memory by memory, drop by drop, I take in a little bit of poison every day as the month goes on. Every day, a new remembrance of an old memory. Every day, a drop of the same poison. I would think about the girl I spent five hours with, in the forbidden cemetery of our hometown. I would think about the sunset being reflected in her hazel eyes and how my heart raced when she held my hand. And I would mix another drop of poison in my evening coffee. I would think about the boy I first gave my body to and how I let him have it even after I changed my mind. I would think about the sunrises w...