I don't want to date you.
And no, before you ask,
it's not because I'm ace
although I am.
It's because when I say no,
—and I've said no—
I mean no.
It's because when I say
that you are my only friend on campus
I mean it.
My friend.
It means when I ghost you
for the entire summer
it's because I've asked you time
and time again
to stop.
So stop.
Because I said no.
Because I meant no.
Because I mean no.
So no.
I will not answer your text.
I will not go to your house.
I will find someone else
who I can trust,
because it's not,
and it will never
be you.
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A Perpetual Existence: A Collected Work of Poems and Verse
PoetryHi, I'm Juliana. What you see here is every poem I've ever written (minus a few drafts that I don't feel comfortable posting). Thus, some of them are gems (see An Arbor to the Moon, The Quiet, or Hamster), and others I fully understand if you read t...
