Poem: "Aren't You Already There?"

Feb 09, 2014 21:26

This poem came out of the February 4, 2014 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from
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technoshaman February 10 2014, 04:49:19 UTC
Sometimes you fall in love
not with the actual person
but with an imaginary ideal,
a better version of them
that exists only in your mind.

Been there, done that. Several times. Finally got clue-batted, thanks Be.

By all that's holy, 1.7 miles works *so* much better than 4700. Then we discovered that 1.7 *feet* is actually our preferred distance... :)

Four months on Tuesday. *burble*

They *can* work; a once-friend and her sweetie made it work three timezones apart for nine years before she screwed her courage to the sticking-point and moved 3000 miles to be with her... and after five years of together they were happily married... just about the time my (hopefully last) LDR fell apart. But hard doesn't begin to describe it, for me...

I can only imagine trying to do it at parsecs....

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Thoughts ysabetwordsmith February 10 2014, 05:10:35 UTC
>> Been there, done that. Several times. Finally got clue-batted, thanks Be. <<

Not fun.

>> By all that's holy, 1.7 miles works *so* much better than 4700. Then we discovered that 1.7 *feet* is actually our preferred distance... :) <<

Yea, verily!

>> Four months on Tuesday. *burble* <<

Congratulations.

>> They *can* work; a once-friend and her sweetie made it work three timezones apart for nine years before she screwed her courage to the sticking-point and moved 3000 miles to be with her... and after five years of together they were happily married... just about the time my (hopefully last) LDR fell apart. But hard doesn't begin to describe it, for me... <<

I've known a number of folks with LDR experience, including myself.

>> I can only imagine trying to do it at parsecs.... ... )

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thnidu February 10 2014, 06:15:24 UTC
it takes know-how
as well as want-to.

I like that. It took me a double-take and a reread to get what you were doing with that odd morphology.

Typo: There ^ subtler things, too,
^ are

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Fixed! ysabetwordsmith February 10 2014, 07:32:35 UTC
>> it takes know-how
as well as want-to.

I like that. It took me a double-take and a reread to get what you were doing with that odd morphology. <<

Yay! I love playing with words, and it's more fun when people get it.

>> Typo: There ^ subtler things, too,
^ are <<

Got it.

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