Letters to You

Dear A, I don’t know where you’ll be when you read this, I did my best to hide it somewhere you wouldn’t find right away. I didn’t want you to read it in front of me, or even read it before you saw me for the last time. I just want you to know how much I love you. I mean that completely genuinely. I think I fell in love with you the first…

Right here and right now I am the happiest I have ever been. You are sleeping across the room and I have to leave in a few minutes. I don’t want to wake you, but I need you to know what the past couple of days have meant to me. You brought me out of my despair. I didn’t think that would be possible. I thought that I would…

Dear B, I did something stupid a couple of weeks ago. I found the phonebook for the city that you’re living in and I looked you up. I found your number and I dialed. I dialed nine of the ten numbers and then I came to my…

You will pull out of this. I promise. We both know it’s not the first time and it won’t be the last. I just need you to dig in and do those things you know you need to do to keep yourself afloat. And give yourself a break. Don’t…

I just moved in next door and feel I must apologize in advance. I am working on a graduate degree in clarinet performance and due to the limited facilities on campus and the lack of time I have I will be required to…

We get it, you’re lifting a lot of weight because you’re a big tough man. Could you maybe take it down a few pounds and cut out the grunting? I don’t think you’re doing it to train for some sort of competition or I would…

Dear Congress, You are killing us. Every day that you refuse to put aside your differences and enter into a discussion about the violence that keeps happening in our country you are killing us. There is blood on every vote that goes…