Patricia Wants to Cuddle

by Samantha Allen

Jesus wants you to love people, he doesn’t want you to get rich quick selling leggings to your old high-school friends.

lol

Some people die, and it’s just shit luck when you love them before they do.

My favorite, though, was when you pointed out the one that looks like a big dog—Canis, I think—and you said, “That’s Oakley, still begging for your table scraps even though he’s in the sky.” Maybe you couldn’t see because of the darkness, but I cried at that.

I didn’t deserve you, but I loved you and I still do. I’m blinking twice.