Thursday, April 24, 2008

Every Girl I've Ever Loved

Everygirl I've Everloved
When I was a boy I used to imagine a white expanse where every girl I'd ever loved or dreamed of loving would be. Naked. All of them. In a long line. The ones I'd felt more intensely drawn to would somehow have been pre-sorted towards the front of the line, and those who had been mere passing fancies, (soap opera crushes, girls in magazines) would be further down.

One day I realized that there would be too many of them.
There would be no way I could get them all into one room.
There simply wouldn't be rooms big enough.


And plus, some of them had surely changed since I'd fallen in love with them. Half of them I surely wouldn't even remember! Beautiful faces that I'd hardly recognize. The young girls could now be old and chain-smoking. Maybe even some corpses! Starlets of the Silver Screen, long gone, now dug and propped up decaying. I wouldn't want to see that.
So I dropped the idea.

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