Follow Vishal Dutia on WordPress.comTo be a good
ex/current friend for R. To be one lastinspired way to get back at R. To be relationship
advice for L. To be advicefor my mother. To be a more comfortable
hospital bed for my mother. To beno more hospital beds. To be, in my spare time,
America for my uncle, who wants to be Chinafor me. To be a country of trafficless roads
& a sports car for my aunt, who likes to gofast. To be a cyclone
of laughter when my parents saytheir new coworker is like that, they can tell
because he wears pink socks, see, you don’t, so you can’t,can’t be one of them. To be the one
my parents raised me to be—a season from the planet
of planet-sized storms.To be a backpack of PB&J & every
thing I know, for my brothers, who are becomingtheir own storms. To be, for me, nobody,
homebody, body in bed watching TV. To go 2D& be a painting, an amateur’s hilltop & stars,
simple decoration for the new apartmentwith you. To be close, J.,
to everything that is close to you—blue blanket, red cup, green shoes
with pink laces.To be the blue & the red.
The green, the hot pink.
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