How Do You Know<\/b>
\nJoe Mills<\/i><\/p>\n
How do you know if it\u2019s love?<\/i> she asks,
\nand I think if you have to ask, it\u2019s not,
\nbut I know this won\u2019t help. I want to say
\nyou\u2019re too young to worry about it,
\nas if she has questions about Medicare
\nor social security, but this won\u2019t help either.
\n\u201cYou\u2019ll just know\u201d is a lie, and one truth,
\n\u201cwhen you still want to be with them
\nthe next morning\u201d would involve too
\nmany follow-up questions. The difficulty
\nwith love, I want to say, is sometimes
\nyou only know afterwards that it\u2019s arrived
\nor left. Love is the elephant and we
\nare the blind mice unable to understand
\nthe whole. I want to say love is this
\ndesire to help even when I know I can\u2019t,
\njust as I couldn\u2019t explain electricity, stars,
\nthe color of the sky, baldness, tornadoes,
\nfingernails, coconuts, or the other things
\nshe has asked about over the years, all
\nthose phenomena whose daily existence
\nseems miraculous. Instead I shake my head.
\nI don\u2019t even know how to match my socks.
\nGo ask your mother.<\/i> She laughs and says,
\nI did. Mom told me to come and ask you.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How Do You Know Joe Mills How do you know if it\u2019s love? she asks, and I think if you have to ask, it\u2019s not, but I know this won\u2019t help. I want to say you\u2019re too young to worry about it, as if she has questions about Medicare or social security, but this won\u2019t … Continue reading “bang bang, that awful sound”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}