Cheater, Cheater, What Have You Done?

as your lover describes you, so you are.

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-jeanette winterson

i wonder how she would describe me now. at the start, she said i was her world. she said i was beautiful. she called me pulchritudinous. at the end, she said i was a liar. she said i was blackened and tarnished and without integrity. but now? now so much has shifted. most recently, she’s described my words as lovely and soul-stirring. maybe my words are where my existence lay.