but Mom made me eat some cheesy pasta, although she at least allowed me to eat in bed.
I slept with the BiPAP for a couple hours. Waking up was horrible,
because for a disoriented moment I felt like everything was fine, and then it crushed me anew.
Mom took me off the BiPAP, I tethered myself to a portable tank, and stumbled into my bathroom to brush my teeth.
Appraising myself in the mirror as I brushed my teeth, I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults:
There were Peter Van Houtens—miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt.
And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.
Neither of these futures struck me as particularly desirable.
It seemed to me that I had already seen everything pure and good in the world,
and I was beginning to suspect that even if death didn’t get in the way,
the kind of love that Augustus and I share could never last.
So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay.
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