artless candor

sam

2009-05-20T02:38:00.002-04:00

i could write like fourteen poems
and not say enough
because everything about you
(from your colorful past
and your musical stylings
to your brown puppy eyes
and your quirky mannerisms)
fascinates me
and while i know that everything changes
i'm pretty sure you'll be around for a long time
because when you say my name
it sounds like a promise

anna

2009-02-14T02:31:00.003-05:00

when i am very old
and alzheimer's has set in
i may not remember going to school
my own children may be unfamiliar
i might not even know who i am
but even then, i will not forget YUG

mikeal

2009-02-10T23:58:00.003-05:00

all the times i have spent with you have been memorable
like climbing all over a train
or stealing cans of soup from target
or singing no doubt at the top of your lungs in my car
i think you are smart and cute like a pet
it's a shame you keep getting arrested

jar

2009-02-10T23:52:00.003-05:00

i'm really glad you like the hat i gave you
seeing you smile was well worth the few bucks i paid for it
because mostly i feel so sad when i look at you

logan

2009-01-27T09:56:00.003-05:00

i always see you riding your bike around
we have several mutual friends
i'm sure you're a cool guy and all
but i feel awkward talking to you
because the first time i met you i threw up
(i wasn't drunk though i promise)
and i really don't want to be that girl

krammer

2009-01-27T09:50:00.003-05:00

i have never met you before
but you can come over if you want to
we can drink tea at the kitchen table
and share our publishing success stories
or we can sit on the ground in the backyard
and maybe instead of saying anything at all
we'll just throw affectionate fistfuls of grass at each other

lisa

2008-12-15T20:14:00.000-05:00

you're so cute i want you to punch me

janey

2008-11-25T00:46:00.004-05:00

i was just listening to that one song
by that one band with the bubbles
that goes, "do you realliiize
that you have the most
beautiful face"
and i was thinking of you
and about how i love you
and how much i miss you
and i actually started weeping
like for srs tears in my eyes
and i was like, what the fuck
i'm totally PMSing or some shit

beth

2008-11-16T22:47:00.002-05:00

i have the kind of aunt who only ever explodes into a room
like a suddenly animate scarecrow, frantic and flailing
crowned with a tumbleweed of over-processed blonde
smelling of cigarettes and coffee and welfare
squeezing my soft brown body a little too hard
with well-meant but uncomfortably bony affection
i feel like dough pressed through a skeleton cookie cutter

dylan

2008-11-11T23:35:00.003-05:00

your friends miss you
poor little guy
you were supposed to grow old

jesse

2008-11-03T14:15:00.002-05:00

you make me feel like a mother
a single mother
a too-young mother
watching her baby living too fast
with nothing to do but pray

sean

2008-11-03T14:09:00.002-05:00

the thought of you inadvertently smoking
a firecracker disguised as a cigarette
which proceeded to sputter and explode
two inches from your face
never fails to make me laugh
i think it was the way you told the story
and the fact that you didn't get hurt, of course
it's also funny how i don't know what you look like
without that weird clown makeup on

avantika

2008-10-23T22:06:00.000-04:00

so beautiful
so clueless

pip

2008-10-22T22:02:00.002-04:00

sorry darling
it never would have worked
between us anyway

jon

2008-10-20T22:27:00.006-04:00

you were friendly to me

we were oddly compatible

i gave you a chance

you were thoughtless and blew it

so i lost my faith in you

and you lost your mind

ian

2008-10-18T14:45:00.005-04:00

i liked you enough to answer the phone
most of the times that you called me
i think you were lonely and i felt bad
one time you said to me "i love you"
you said it like it was a question,
one for which i had no answer

charlie

2008-10-13T18:55:00.003-04:00

lots of things change

but i find comfort in knowing

that no matter what

you will always be my brother

i will always be nine years older than you

you will always look up to me

and i will always be able to kick your ass

ramona

2008-10-12T17:44:00.002-04:00

if the world were as it should be
it would be perfectly okay
for me to steal you
and be your mother

jaime

2008-10-03T09:42:00.003-04:00

i think you are magical
it's something about your long braids
or maybe your long fingernails
or your tiny boots
it could be your wet blue eyes
something bespeaks magic powers
is it weird that i'd like to call you mama

fred

2008-10-02T10:54:00.003-04:00

it's so endearing how much
you always seem to be enjoying yourself
in a way that wouldn't be
if you weren't a little french man
i wonder how they say
"let's go smoke a bowl"
in the language of love

colin

2008-10-01T14:07:00.003-04:00

if it were something like 1880
and i was a lonely young widow
and we met in a narrow alley
i'd totally let you sweep my chimbley

rebecca

2008-09-30T17:12:00.003-04:00

we went to school together
i never got to know you
as well as i think i could have
since we both tend to keep to ourselves
and rely on the cryptic
when we have something to express
i understand your poems
you feel like a kindred spirit

brenna

2008-09-29T22:20:00.003-04:00

you are my smallest friend
i feel confused by your religion
but i think it makes you happy
i think once you liked me
as more than a casual friend
i don't know that for sure
but when i had dreams
about making love to you
i didn't try to suppress them
and when i give you a hug
i feel like your boyfriend

levi

2008-09-27T08:56:00.004-04:00

i didn't expect volunteering at a farm
for therapeutic horseback riding
with special needs children
to be an erotic experience
then i met you
you were a cowboy
and you ravished my expectations

cameron

2008-09-25T21:41:00.001-04:00

your face is beautiful
when you sing i feel things
i want to hold you up

maggie

2008-09-24T22:21:00.003-04:00

i think we were really close friends once
but i never really understood you
one time in the bathroom
you put a red ribbon around my waist
and said "see, look how skinny you are"
i didn't know why
you were a strange one, always
either the life of the party
or just out of reach
then you moved to paris
and became a legend

andy

2008-09-23T11:58:00.003-04:00

i didn't realize you were one of my best friends
until i realized how much i miss you
you are the softest person i have ever met
come be my platonic snuggling partner

matt

2008-09-22T23:17:00.003-04:00

i'm sorry i led you on, it was an accident
i don't think i really have a 'type'
but you are so not my type it's hilarious
i wish you'd stop telling me how beautiful i am
it makes me uncomfortable

katy

2008-09-21T22:34:00.003-04:00

i feel like i could love you
i would like more of you in my life

will

2008-09-20T16:09:00.003-04:00

one time you came to my house at 3 am
we sat in the kitchen and drank red wine
and you talked on skype with some guy in england
if given the choice i would have that night again
but you moved to new york and grew a beard
and started sleeping with men
or at least started admitting it

cici

2008-09-18T20:46:00.003-04:00

i came to your house once a week
i liked talking to you about things
we never really accomplished much
but i always felt better afterward
because it seemed like i was helping you
which is funny, since you were my therapist

sterling

2008-09-17T13:48:00.005-04:00

i find you very attractive
but your sunglasses are a little too big
and your jeans fit a little too well
and i don't think i have much of a chance
with a boy who's voluntarily in my ballet class
but that's alright with me
i'm satisfied with watching you change into your tights

pat

2008-09-16T20:44:00.003-04:00

you're not my kind of boy but i like you anyway
grow some hair and i'll like you more

isaac

2008-09-14T13:16:00.002-04:00

some tourists took a picture with you
because they wanted to document
"the true asheville experience"
i thought that was funny
you make a good pillow
on the sidewalk
during a fire drill

christie

2008-09-12T10:55:00.001-04:00

i'm really happy that i share blood with you
i'm really happy that i share a heart with you

elizabeth

2008-09-10T23:33:00.003-04:00

you are my most beautiful friend
when we are together i fall in love with you
you accidentally kissed me once in an elevator
i would want to be your girlfriend if i thought you were into that

bryson

2008-09-09T09:10:00.003-04:00

you are still my favorite way to hurt myself

nate

2008-09-08T17:37:00.003-04:00

you are a very good snuggler
but that doesn't make you a rock star
also your mustache is ridiculous

michelle

2008-09-07T23:34:00.002-04:00

i always thought we could be really close friends
maybe if i ever made any effort to talk to you

zero

2008-09-05T23:08:00.003-04:00

you were a rainbow to look at
i remember you seemed very at peace with yourself
you grew up in a trailer park
and never knew the naivety of childhood
i didn't know you for very long
but it was long enough to make me feel grateful

dailey

2008-09-03T16:23:00.001-04:00

i would like to take care of you like a puppy
i would take you for walks and let you sleep in my bed
but i would never, ever make out with you

david

2008-09-02T10:19:00.001-04:00

i waited so long for you to grow up
then i realized you weren't going to
hope that works out for you

jarrod

2008-08-28T17:00:00.002-04:00

i met you at a party
you swept me off my feet, literally
you came to my house a few times
your hair was dirty and your clothes smelled like cigarettes
but you were cute and you kissed well so it was alright
then we fell out of touch and that was alright too
i don't think about you much

zaire

2008-08-26T20:44:00.002-04:00

you are not a prophet
and i am not your girlfriend
you are drunk, swaggering around
naked with your cock between your legs
and i am not laughing with you
i am laughing at you

sheina

2008-08-25T16:03:00.001-04:00

how can we be so different that we can't stand each other
and be so alike that we can't help but love each other
at your healthiest you looked like a belligerent doll
at your happiest you look like a sick little bird

preston

2008-08-24T13:24:00.002-04:00

i'm so giggly whenever we talk
you probably think i'm silly
but i just can't look at you without thinking
"oh my god,
he saw me naked"
and instead of being embarrassing
it kind of turns me on

emily

2008-08-23T17:50:00.001-04:00

i'm glad things are changing for you
i'm glad you seem happier now
because before you were trying to die
i knew but i didn't stop you
and i am not sure how i feel about that
being your best friend
is really hard work

ryan

2008-08-16T03:12:00.003-04:00

you made me do this
you will be rewarded