Marty McConnell Quotes

• “Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell
  
  leaving is not enough; you must
  stay gone. train your heart
  like a dog. change the locks
  even on the house he’s never
  visited. you lucky, lucky girl.
  you have an apartment
  just your size. a bathtub
  full of tea. a heart the size
  of Arizona, but not nearly
  so arid. don’t wish away
  your cracked past, your
  crooked toes, your problems
  are papier mache puppets
  you made or bought because the vendor
  at the market was so compelling you just
  had to have them. you had to have him.
  and you did. and now you pull down
  the bridge between your houses,
  you make him call before
  he visits, you take a lover
  for granted, you take
  a lover who looks at you
  like maybe you are magic. make
  the first bottle you consume
  in this place a relic. place it
  on whatever altar you fashion
  with a knife and five cranberries.
  don’t lose too much weight.
  stupid girls are always trying
  to disappear as revenge. and you
  are not stupid. you loved a man
  with more hands than a parade
  of beggars, and here you stand. heart
  like a four-poster bed. heart like a canvas.
  heart leaking something so strong
  they can smell it in the street.”

  Marty McConnell

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• “you take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”

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• “FRIDA KAHLO TO MARTY MCCONNELL
  
  leaving is not enough; you must
  stay gone. train your heart
  like a dog. change the locks
  even on the house he’s never
  visited. you lucky, lucky girl.
  you have an apartment
  just your size. a bathtub
  full of tea. a heart the size
  of Arizona, but not nearly
  so arid. don’t wish away
  your cracked past, your
  crooked toes, your problems
  are papier mache puppets
  you made or bought because the vendor
  at the market was so compelling you just
  had to have them. you had to have him.
  and you did. and now you pull down
  the bridge between your houses,
  you make him call before
  he visits, you take a lover
  for granted, you take
  a lover who looks at you
  like maybe you are magic. make
  the first bottle you consume
  in this place a relic. place it
  on whatever altar you fashion
  with a knife and five cranberries.
  don’t lose too much weight.
  stupid girls are always trying
  to disappear as revenge. and you
  are not stupid. you loved a man
  with more hands than a parade
  of beggars, and here you stand. heart
  like a four-poster bed. heart like a canvas.
  heart leaking something so strong
  they can smell it in the street.”

  Marty McConnell

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• “leaving is not enough; you must
  stay gone. train your heart
  like a dog. change the locks
  even on the house he’s never
  visited. you lucky, lucky girl.
  you have an apartment
  just your size. a bathtub
  full of tea. a heart the size
  of Arizona, but not nearly
  so arid. don’t wish away
  your cracked past, your
  crooked toes, your problems
  are papier mache puppets
  you made or bought because the vendor
  at the market was so compelling you just
  had to have them. you had to have him.
  and you did. and now you pull down
  the bridge between your houses,
  you make him call before
  he visits, you take a lover
  for granted, you take
  a lover who looks at you
  like maybe you are magic. make
  the first bottle you consume
  in this place a relic. place it
  on whatever altar you fashion
  with a knife and five cranberries.
  don’t lose too much weight.
  stupid girls are always trying
  to disappear as revenge. and you
  are not stupid. you loved a man
  with more hands than a parade
  of beggars, and here you stand. heart
  like a four-poster bed. heart like a canvas.
  heart leaking something so strong
  they can smell it in the street.”

  Marty McConnell

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