What Not To Think About To Get Over Heartbreak
A Poem

1. How ‘knowing’ and ‘thinking’ have very different definitions.
(Like, “I think I love you” isn’t the same as “I know I love you,”
no matter how carefully you say it)
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2. The way net curtains hide the inhabitants of the house. (Anyone is always watching)
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3. Swiping left. And right. Then deleting my account, but not before Nick hit a ‘like’.
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4. Your own trauma.
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5. Words don’t tell lies. Eyes do. I can see them in the videos I still have of you.
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6. Lesbians, particularly lonely ones.
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7. That I might be too small for the world.
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8. A bald woman dressed in red.
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9. Photos of your ex-wife sat at a restaurant table, laughing
- her auburn hair is magnificent.
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10. The thing that changed your mind to give our love a second chance.
About the Creator
Eve Hill
Eve’s work is confessional, intimate, and unafraid of exposure. Anchored in real recollection, she writes about moments that unmake us. Through raw testimony, she unpicks the delirium and aftermath of loving, losing, and surviving yourself.


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