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A HOW-TO ON DISAPPEARING No one understands the way we break. Not jagged. Not knife sliding between ribs. Not the spine, cracking. That would be too easy. That would be being able to know that you're broken. That would be X-rays showing the gaps, the fissures. Clean breaks are easier to heal. We do not break cleanly. We break without breaking. Not a crack, but a fog. We dissipate. Body here one moment and not here the next. Hands working one moment and a dead weight the next. We watch ourselves turn colourless. Watch ourselves become invisible / invincible. This way, at least the pain is our own. That's what I wanted all along, I guess.

And the stretch-across-your-entire-face smile? From the people around me. Despite the lonely, despite the sadness, despite the anger their smiles make the hearts Aphrodite left behind beat faster / louder. They make my heart beat in my chest again.

I'm sorry that when you say 'love', I always hear 'heartbreak'.

She asks me how my heart is, and I say, 'beating.' That's never the answer you want, and I am sorry about that.

The lonely? Where's that from? Sadness' best friend. Sadness brought it along and I couldn't turn it away, so I let it multiply in my pulse instead.

Where did you get your sadness from? I picked it up on the side of the road. It was bleeding and scratched and keening like a mangled thing, but it looked too beautiful for me to just walk away.

Your own hands falling out to catch you before you hit the ground. All the ways you save yourself even when you don't want to. Love is the way your body fights to keep you alive. Day after day after day.