I see her in flashes everywhere I go. Ulises Vargas May 10, 2026. I see her in flashes everywhere I go. I’m taunted by the sight of someone I can’t love, and who I want to love so badly. Will everyone have a lover one day? Who will their lovers be? Why am I not their lover? Why are they not mine? Everyone can be lovable, but not all at once. In a million people, my lover is fragmented into bits I find in scattered people, hoping to piece together and find the lover who’s meant to be mine. She’s split and she’s fractured in off smiles and in half-humor; in red-herrings and faint hints. Dust flings and dust gravitates, forming, eventually, a lover, who is in a million— flung with millions of borrowed parts— to love as one Frankenstein. Her fracture is whole and well. Her nature is good and tall. Borrowed from a million loves I’ve had, her perfection na...
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