“To love me
is to love a haunted house–
it’s fun to visit once a year,
but no one wants to live there,
and when you say,
'Tell me about the bad days,'
it sounds like all the neighborhood kids daring each other to ring the doorbell”
More from Brenna Twohy
“I, too, have loved men who named my mouth ashtray, mistook me for a place to leave burning…”
“this is where i come from. everyone i love still lives there.”
“saying we have not become strangers by the distance does as much good as saying apartment…”
“To love me is to love a haunted house.”