A lost friend of mine

(a quasi-lover actually,

the one who loved the sagas

but couldn’t handle my intensity

and tried to defeat it with hand-knit hats),

he really nailed it once.

‘When you say that you like something

you clearly also don’t like it at the same time’

with which I guess he meant that he could see

that like the Oven Bird I wonder

what to make of a diminished thing.

I still mean it when I say

that you are great.

Language is not accurate

so I won’t shut up. 

At least until next Winter.