Ari Eastman

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Stop what you’re doing right now. Seriously. Turn off Netflix. Step away from Monica, Chandler, Joey, and the whole gang for a hot second.

He says I am a loud girl. I laugh, “I know that.”

When they held your face and kissed your cheek, your skin was on fire. They were always just 98.6 while you burned with a fever.

They don’t know you exist, but you are still in love with them.

I don’t want to admit that my life falls in phases of men who I carve into my heart and bedframe.

I have a few scars on my back from my own doing. I don’t even realize what I’m doing. But I keep doing it.

I knew you so shortly. But at night you whisper to me.

The asshole who makes you cry freshman year of high school later asks you out. And you turn him down. So let that thought dry your tears.

I don’t know what to call you. Not an ex, but a something. We wanted different things, but do not mistake, you were a something to me.

I wanted to be drunk on him. I wanted an addiction to form.