05
FF
04
72
FF
12
16
66
16
more than anything else
history: here is where
because I don’t slide		 i use my DMs
I can track everything.
(that much) and I		 as a kind of
it’s not crowded—
don’t often get slid
so mostly they record
an initiation of plans,
so I can say,		 the beginnings of friendships
or a hey there,
“Alana, our friendship started		 some mild flattery or
so great meeting you!
on blah blah day”
facebook wants to impose
out myself and also
use when I need		 anniversaries on me but
dumb things: first dates,
some sadness. DMs giveth,		 i prefer seeking them
masochistic remembrances that I
and they taketh away.
—
Marian Bull is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn.