Like a technique or marriage (personality test)

1. He says “that same evening”. You?

1. finger
2. rest
3. jubilant
4. tear

1. He says “decided to stay, not typically admired; bored”. You?

1. a bad storm
2. not intended
3. hush the phone
4. twirl the pill

1. He says “my unusual friend” and “touch it”. You?

1. (x)(o)(x)
2. order a beer exhibition
3. phrase “forget it”
4. style the content to style

1. He says “nothing ever came of it, really. Maybe a few times, some. Mostly not, though, not really”. You?

1. the losses, starting now
2. find another Sophie
3. watch the screen and pretend (not to notice, not really)
4. are so far from the carnations anymore

1. He says “it’s like how your balls still stick to your legs after you uncross them”. You?

1. say it’s not like that at all
2. stay put
3. get hard
4. remember together

1. He says “justified homicide and the other little things; I wank to frothy”. You?

1. observe the other
2. liken to first night together
3. are sad?
4. boil more prawns

1. He says “I want the renew. I want to suck you. I want to pretend that what was wasn’t. I want to remember the things that don’t collect anymore in the mind, the things that you might see on a screen somewhere. I want to make things right again, as right as they never might have were”. You?

1. stay put
2. stay put, and swallow’
3. stay put, and jank your memory
4. stay put, and putter around (aimlessly)

1. He says “but it really isn’t, isn’t it? Pleasure of facts gliding. Seems flush with coldness and the other darker clouds. It feels too late to paw the landscape, but not too late to try. Disgust is blue, bright, fatal. Enjoy my heart, the way it drips.” You?

1. don’t move (moving means making meaning)
2. stroll the hillside
3. don’t move (moving makes you sick)
4. ride the train to the end of the line and then go back, thinking the whole time, thinking nothing

1. He says “the plain parts heap upon us. Entirely heaviest when we’re older. Always, always, the right people in the right places. Like the formal slight restraint. The ways you can’t anticipate the wind. It blows, however briefly, enough to tumble you down.” You?

1. sit down, read the newspaper, pretend to listen carefully
2. sit down, drink a whiskey, imagine the country, the dog, the years
3. sit down, because you can’t get up
4. sit down, and fall asleep

1. He says “we struggle and I picked you this flour. We just need to not take it off. It isn’t because mother is old, or that she has an ugly coat, but something that’s closer to how she reminds me all the time about how it’s not a good past to create. The dry clacking of the rotor. The one who takes the one who makes his mother. It tips up to too many mothers, and requires a bit more wriggling.” You?

1. stretch your legs, the ones you have left
2. try to get up, can’t, don’t get up
3. smell yourself, think of the ocean, smell yourself again
4. check the couch for coins again

1. He says “of course I miss him.” You?

1. don’t believe him, believing it better to ignore the harder facts
2. harness a terror like such cross crossings
3. become free to fall, and fall
4. map the delta, now defined

1. He says “I have a feeling. A feeling that feels felt and feels more than enough to feel better than feeling at all, which feels odd, and cannot remain stable, I suppose. It’s going to be a good day.” You?

1. remind him you’re stuck, culled
2. remind him we can be alone
3. remind him of the cases where it applies, both of them
4. listen to the radio instead

1. He says “it doesn’t move exactly. It purports a further punishment for you, you are so punishable. Then the tire. Holding you back so and so gnarly a birth you furrow like a bastard in braids. This is adoration.” You?

1. hold still, listening and wanting
2. turn your head, and midsway turn the other way
3. exclaim ‘we can get along’
4. hold, hardened and basted

1. He says “do you toot toot the trumpet? I can’t imagine it if you do.” You?

1. ask if he is living, or dying, or both
2. point to the box in the closet and give him the finger
3. take out your trumpet and smack him right side the head with it
4. organize another thing, just kidding yourself

1. He says “we devote ourselves in this closed space, we do this because we can. You arrange yourself to silent grounds because your beautiful, or hate to understand the always silent things we hold dear.” You?

1. tuck it away
2. try to move out, fail, try again, fail again only worse
3. mind your mourning, but better this time
4. just take a shit, feel better, and shit again only in the wrong place this time

1. He says “okay lick mends the morning like butter and crisis. No promise of age or family status. Hurt his humor and press the burnt pennies into his palms. That’s how you figure the homeless out of hiding. Or tell them it’s raining outside.” You?

1. ignore the phrases, stick to your own thoughts instead
2. say “you’re right, as always”
3. downplay it, as you do the downloaded
4. cross your fingers and hope for rain

1. He says “the time of rubbing out”. You?

1. do something worthwhile with your fist
2. fuck the filth off this stinking body
3. publish a book, the raw bulk of which is rubbing out
4. touch the older adults, their glances downtown in their socks

1. He says “the recurring shimmering subject, puzzled coolly. pastoral of the reply; unfabulous and gathered like dry paint. Terror and humility in our restfulness. They communicate in water, drowning out their drowning able. The old man reaches out his arm. He’s not waving.” You?

1. slip, liversome, tooth and triggerbound rotary
2. make sex in the face and foods
3. trouble the built remains
4. ache

1. He says “all in vain, thus things go. Craving for indifferently devoted men, the pain grows as I speak and gorges on my love. I feel modest about it. Scuttle the problem of the choice of good words.” You?

1. have only seen the sexuality of the words
2. cloth the anything
3. double down
4. slip the tongue from your teeth and form the world as opacity and frailty

1. He says “the boat floats above us, understand? All month long. Even the long months. With a package of maudlin modulation that sings that song you like, as all the songs you like are sad. Happiness through stamina, sure, but it leaves you standing. Just how simple would it be if we just walked together. The city core is cruel. It was summer, a hot day. We painted the walls back to white again. We moved our things and you crashed the truck. We spent the evening satisfying the narrative of the body. It turned black.” You?

1. agree
2. disagree
3. find an excuse, why you don’t remember it like that, but really you do
4. find an excuse, why you don’t remember it like that, because it wasn’t really like that at all (he crashed the truck)

1. He says “Blackjack”. You?

1. back down, against the wood
2. fold up, forever punished by never learning the trick
3. black out
4. black out, with additions