LIMERENCE
IN LIMERENCE OVERLOAD?
If love is the glue binding our tribe disinterest is
the solvent Not hate which is equally binding It is
much more difficult to grieve someone who: lied
demeaned +loathed you Trust me I know Years ago
such a relation died via suicide
Research points to the release of neuro-chemicals in fresh
intimacies that act as anti-depressants The opposite is true of
troubled associations Here bile stomach acid +cortisol the rule
A festering anti-limerence may even cause disease A feeding upon
oneself as Roger Chillingworth fed upon Arthur Dimmesdale The
unpardonable sin in Hawthorne’s Scarlett Letter
But it was Emily D. the only female Transcendentalist who knew that
love commingles heaven+hell While ardourless science stomps all over
love as fate It’s really about simple proximity Location location location
My 3rd husband waxes romantic yet I moved onto his street +had a
washer and dryer in the basement!
Might something more complex have been afoot? It is true too that when I
am caught in the most venomous of tempests he generally shows up unexpectedly
One frozen winter’s eve some years ago as I crested a snowbank filled with evil
intention +bile a hand gallantly appeared I felt his familiar gaze +glared into
that Viking face Clearly for me there is no escape
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If you can’t take it, get out. I can’t take it so I lie on a hotel bed dissolving
into chemicals. (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept
Elizabeth Smart 1945)
Winter 2017 Valentines Day for ASC year 29..
songanddancegirl 