option. nothing but a mere option

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“I wrote your name at the top of my paper.
But you wrote mine in a crumpled scratch,
dropped it inside a jar with the other names that you gathered,
thinking that when you’re bored you’ll get one of the folded papers,
read the name in it,
and tell them you love them.

You are my only thing,
but I am just one of your options.”

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