Georgie, All Along

by Kate Clayborn

not to sound too Los Angeles about this whole thing, but I literally cannot.

That’s how I feel when Georgie laughs: the purest sort of peer pressure.

the water and sky arguing over who was the more beautiful blue.

This is what you’ve always wanted, I think. But endlessly, perfectly better.

But I know what I don’t want, and that’s to spend another day without you.”