Status: Caps in title abanoned for stylistic purposes.

Frankie & Einstein

a lightning match

Her lips fluttered around my face and got whisked away by the air. I grabbed fistfulls of his hair from the wind. I bottled some of her smell, and drew a picture of his smile.

In my mind we looked at the skylines of Paris, Athens, Buenos Aires with her hand folded in mine; on a chilly winter I imagined sipping hot chocolate from a cup still warm from his mouth.

I pieced them all together and put them all apart. They are powerful and pretty and everything I could want. Perfect, and on paper.

But they are not you.