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{A double entendre is used to express potentially offensive opinions without the risks of explicitly doing so.} miquila alejandre When you are here, it is comfortable. Sometimes I feel the words “I love you,” slipping to the front of my mouth, but that is to be expected. These words have their own life. They look for certain outside conditions and gauge them against my internal warmth. They’re not wrong. But my tongue flicks them back, throws them hard against the back of my throat in fear. In this way they learn discipline. Such powerful words cannot go about life so blithe and oblivious. Perhaps if they were created of a different language they could remain children always. Other languages keep their ideas separate, they do not ask one little phrase to say “Surely I would spend my Sunday helping you move in the pouring rain” and “You are the liquid brimming just behind my lower eyelashes every moment of every day,” which are two entirely different things. In other languages, they know that the nature of the phrase is to touch as many people as possible and not feel ashamed. Which makes it follow that some will think themselves to live below eyelashes when really they are only saturated with the spill of some untimely outpouring. |
