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Sing It, Bobby!
(AUDIO: Visions of Johanna by Bob Dylan)
1. Impossibly still, I believe in love.
2. Heartbreak is transient.
3. It’s the moment before the first kiss.
4. It’s loving her favorite song, no matter how uncool.
5. It’s being blind to faults.
6. Drunk with blindness.
7. It’s that perfect axis of sunlight and flesh.
8. Thanking her mother for creating her.
9. Shaking hands with her father.
10. A new map of pop culture references.
11. Moments to laugh at.
12. Movies for weeping.
13. The geography of her skin.
14. The bell-tone of her voice.
15. A loneliness without her.
16. A swagger with her.
17. The Bonnie & Clyde moments.
18. The ballet of late night calls, hand-written letters.
19. The subtle reinventions.
20. The rebirth of hope.
21. Embracing chance.
22. Leaping with closed eyes.
23. Barely remembering yourself before her.
24. Not being able to imagine a romantic after life.
25. That first drink.
26. The trust of sleeping adjacent.
27. The push and pull of bed linens.
28. The quiet storm of long hair.
29. Falling into the elegant darkness.
30. Feeling inside out.
31. Upside-down.
32. Eating too little.
33. Eyes dilating at her touch.
34. The yawn of morning.
35. That feline stretch, and arched back.
36. Expensive bath products, and books you’d never otherwise read.
37. The poetry of chance.
38. Literary spark in the mundane, ordinary.
39. Cinema is secret glances.
40. Virtue in plain embrace.
41. The glow of pride.
42. The new shapes, and breathing.
43. It’s the lost sense of direction.
44. It’s the distorted realities.
45. The way she lights her cigarette.
46. The interchangeable oneness.
47. The fool look on your face.
48. The dumb glee, and speechlessness.
49. The organic interface of two lives, lived together.
50. Innocence, vulnerability, where none existed before.
