Easy ways to break my heart (after Diane Lato)

- offer me tea (but bring it, half-steeped with 2% milk—the taste of devastated water)

- show me dark, pregnant clouds with their petrichor breath only to scatter their burgeon

(and leave me in yearning)

- be brave for me and never tell me you’re afraid (I see you, you know)

- throw out a book you think I wouldn’t miss (I know where each one of my books live)

- tell me poetry is worthless in the real world (it’s not; you steaming big pile of shit)

- play Iris by Goo Goo Dolls once (and watch me never fall asleep)

- make me sleep without a blanket (you monster)

- ask me where I’m from (and then not listen)

- make me re-watch Dean tell his mom he hates her but still can’t stop himself for loving

and forgiving her (Supernatural Season 12, Episode 22, 28:21 minutes in, if anyone wants to bawl their eyes out)

- remind me how young I am (because I’ll probably watch everyone I love die first)

- say you want me and then take it back