i haven't seen my best friend in six days and i've already watched all our old videos with the bad lighting & worse camera angles, clicked through the pictures of us together and got all sentimental like i have a pretty awesome life after all, overflowed her notifications with countdowns for two days' time when we'll meet at overnight camp and make up for time lost, ate popcorn & missed her obsession with dumping li hing mui powder over every kernel we eat, laughed over her replies, rubbed my thumb against my calendar where she wrote in black Sharpie CAMP HOCHELAGA w/ meee <3, and realized despite all the teasing and fights and hard edges i'd love my best friend if it was six days or sixty and i can't wait to see her again.
one half of a best friends necklace
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we did okay.
i found a binder full of photos from my preschool years,
lined paper covered in neat cursive
signed by my teachers, women who i remember the names of
and not much else. their voices were warm and the house
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sukkot
and there is room at our table, oh so much room we are simply
bursting with food, we are overflowing,
uniformity is not a problem in our sukkah. we can
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