People tell me, when I ask: that their life is pretty much the same as it was yesterday, there is nothing new to tell. Now, personally, I know this isn't true. Things change extremely rapidly. That proud sandbar we like to stand so solid on is quickly worn away by the calculated drift of decimal approximation and the necessity of rounding errors. You think things will last forever, but they don't, really it doesn't. Every situation seems to come pre-packaged with it's best-before date stamped indelibly on the plastic.

All leaves, autumn or otherwise, are washed downwards by the rain, forever towards the gutter and out into the sea.

We could be, you and me, a compliment of opposites: like sweet'n'sour pork... or salt & vinegar crisps. The first time I ever saw you I felt like a stuck pig, bleeding out in pure bliss on the knife edge of your sweetness. You cut me to the quick. No industrial apple corer could ever leave me feeling more hollow, so deliciously empty, full of wanting and wanton desire than you left me, left completely breathless, asphyxiated by your trace.

This is the kind of lunacy that could tear a man to scraps and pieces, but, honestly, would you swap it? Seems to me people always tend to complain more about their aches than they do about their amputations, but as for me: I already cut off all my limbs in advance.

Individual moments of pure madness, unadulterated by common-sense and then stacked each on top of one another, falling over, eventually they make up a life.

If only I was ever more than words, my turns of phrase only ever seem to lasso smoke, my nets catch nothing but water. Anyway... aaaanyway, many years of experience have made me pretty good at this whole unrequited thing, but my point is, you will always be beautiful regardless.

You got that with you, it's yours forever, nobody can steal it. Maybe Jupiter slipped a slice of moon in your mouth, who knows.

Anyway, I'll never get to say this to your face: I hear they admire sunsets even in the ghettos of Calcutta—I think you are possibly the brightest star in the entire planetarium.

Anyway, sorry it had to come from me.