Thursday, January 21, 2010

Understood, For a Change

"Can we start again?" she asks, "Go back to the beginning. Before all this shit. Before we realized we hated each other. Start again. Start with 'hello'."



No.
No, we can't.

5 comments:

Bernard said...

Hmm.

Kind of simplistic. Kind of too-brief.

Kind of bleak.

Chasch said...

Kind of heart-raped.

Mike Carrozza said...

...yeah...tried this with "someone"..
does not work that way...

Marta said...

I like the briefness of this, the direct and to-the-pointness. Although I feel like there should be more of a link between the first part and the second, or maybe the second part just needs quotation marks too. But I like the "Start with 'hello'" part. Kind of just sums up everything so perfectly and concisely. Breaks (rapes) the heart.

Andrea said...

ahaha Charles.
I agree with Bernard though. I feel that maybe it would've been stronger if it ended with just No.
Or, "Um, no."
I don't know why, but that's what I keep hearing in my mind.