Prompt: Love
Prompt 4:
There’s love at first sight.
A flash of a smile. Lips quirked. A pout.
Maybe it’s eyes. Color? Not even color, but shape and placement.
Maybe it’s shadows or light.
The angle of a cheekbone?
Focus on curves, any curve.
Breasts, ass, but also the bend of a knee, an elbow, a dimple in her chin.
Maybe it’s the flashy outfit, the one that shows too much. Maybe it’s in the fuck me heels and the lipstick.
Maybe it’s a lot of things I can zoom in on that capture love at first sight on film, but it isn’t that first zing that’s the mystery. It is everything that follows.
There is that first connection but what next?
What about second sight, the third, the three hundredth and eighth?
What about baggage?
What about the lifetime that follows?
That’s what I want. Morning coffee and burnt toast. Hangovers and run stockings.
I believe in love at first sight, but what I really want is love after first sight.
Mark Cohen,
from Rent
168 words
There’s love at first sight.
A flash of a smile. Lips quirked. A pout.
Maybe it’s eyes. Color? Not even color, but shape and placement.
Maybe it’s shadows or light.
The angle of a cheekbone?
Focus on curves, any curve.
Breasts, ass, but also the bend of a knee, an elbow, a dimple in her chin.
Maybe it’s the flashy outfit, the one that shows too much. Maybe it’s in the fuck me heels and the lipstick.
Maybe it’s a lot of things I can zoom in on that capture love at first sight on film, but it isn’t that first zing that’s the mystery. It is everything that follows.
There is that first connection but what next?
What about second sight, the third, the three hundredth and eighth?
What about baggage?
What about the lifetime that follows?
That’s what I want. Morning coffee and burnt toast. Hangovers and run stockings.
I believe in love at first sight, but what I really want is love after first sight.
Mark Cohen,
from Rent
168 words