Don’t Give Me Half-Measures of Anything
Yessica Klein
not the hormonal rollercoaster high type of
love –
translated to our different languages
mine a developing one, always Romantic –
yours traditional
if not conservative & colonial
e.g.
apaixonar-se – to be in a state of passion
you call it being in love –
but where I’m from, we don’t invite love to these
things –
in fact, I don’t recall ever inviting love to anything
that little bitch – but it’s too late to argue
the linguistic roots
of our
indifferences
love –
translated to our different languages
mine a developing one, always Romantic –
yours traditional
if not conservative & colonial
e.g.
apaixonar-se – to be in a state of passion
you call it being in love –
but where I’m from, we don’t invite love to these
things –
in fact, I don’t recall ever inviting love to anything
that little bitch – but it’s too late to argue
the linguistic roots
of our
indifferences
Yessica Klein is a Brazilian-born writer based in Berlin, Germany. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Kingston University (UK) and her writing has been featured on 3:AM, The Moth, Magnum Photos, The Lighthouse Review, and more. She was also shortlisted for the 2017 Jane Martin Poetry Prize.