she’ll never forget
how as her heart was breaking
he went to see a foreign film in the suburbs with his family
the next day, he proceeded to inform her about Korean film and
K-pop — like an old man who was just hearing about it for the first time in 2022,
like someone who never knew anyone and who traveled to Korea, for a semester abroad or to teach English, or anything, despite his worldliness and AAdvantages,
like someone who never heard
of BTS, their Map of The Soul,
or Carl Jung’s
it was then she realized how
ignorant and insular,
and Lechter-like he was

he collected things and ate people to feed his ego,

and she was a fucking feast

his heart rate never rose the whole time

but his dick sure did

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