Milady, My Malady

Author’s Note
I wrote this in Nov. 2013 after a breakup. At the time, it was therapeutic and not intended for public consumption. Now though? It’s a bittersweet time capsule.

• Mario band-aids
• Borrowed scissors
• Bedside visitations
• A friendship of convenience
• “Sketchball” and “coquettish”
• Weird Al’s sauerkraut
• Conversations over coffee
• Constant, continuous
• Alliteration
• Salsa
• Zombies
• “…for science”
• Jolly Ranchers
• Contact lenses
• Extreme coupons
• Batman versus Superman
• Spicy Thai food on February 14
• Locked doors and casual vandalism
• Steam Powered Giraffe’s “Honeybee”
• “Never pay for gluten; it should always be free.”
• In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.
• Walking the pavement beside the shore
• What the Pho?
• The Tandem
• Tiger tattoo
• Eggs over easy
• Breakfast for dinner
• A back like Daniel Craig’s
• A scoundrel and a handsome devil
• Space, the final frontier
• Monopolized Sundays
• Bubble tea
• Bingo dauber
• Low iron levels
• “Two lips” for tulips
• Two kisses on the cheek
• Snow cones and funnel cake
• Vitamin C deficiency
• Fairest of two fairs
• My little peanut
• “Young-ish.”
• Edmonds sunset
• Country Village after dark
• Free-range, feral chickens
• Dancing without music in the rain
• Middle name guessing game
• Bennie and the Jets
• She gets my printer