Stephen Dunn Quotes
Stephen Dunn Quotes
I've tried
to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.
3525 I'll say I love you,
Which will lead, of course,
to disappointment,
but those words unsaid
poison every next moment.
I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.
1460 Connubial
Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware of - this tic, that
tendency, like the way I've mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt -
I knew I was in danger
of being terribly understood.
3337 I will try to disappoint you
better than anyone else has.
2557 Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.
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