I Loved You More

by Tom Spanbauer

Usually we have to hide a little when we risk saying something true to someone we don’t know.

“It’s all sad, Gruney,” Hank said. “If we let ourselves know how sad it really is, there wouldn’t be anything left of us.”

Really what do you do with something that big? It can’t fit in your mouth and it certainly can’t fit up your ass. So I guess the old joke is true: all you can do is throw your arms around it and weep.

“We don’t live on things,” I say. “We live on the meaning of things.”