I told her that she tries too hard. She responded by telling me that I tried too soft. Girls like that will have you drowning in inevitable silence, like a bathing beauty worth wading for. Her lips looked like a pair of wrists that had never been slit. They'd make you lose your balance and fall like rain just like I did that night.
There is so much humor to be found in the tragic disbelief of "only human." We're all just slapstick hearts playing to an empty room.
