love 1 – Jeff Schneider

December 3, 2025

squeezing orange juice out of our eyes
tapping on silent marble stairs
texting unsatisfying things
smashing dashboard heart
you decided it’s over
snowflakes, songs, blankets on the floor
make one shit sense of difference now
watching the sunrise over coffee
in a diner
crying out the love destroyed over nothing

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love 2

I made eye contact
And you looked at your floor
And I spied you from across the bar
And you shrugged and hugged on a dumb millionaire
Don’t you know tears are of the same salt?
Ubers cost the same cost
A stiff one is the same as the next one
I carry Love in my pocket
Love in my je ne sais quoi
Fly to the Caribbean
Or France
Drink rum or wine
Tell me about your mother
Talk to me about your fucked up father
Open up the midnight hour
Fight me
Punch me
Cut me
Hold me
Let me go to the home of your great-grandfather and shout
I love you

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love 3

I dropped you off
Then you started texting
My boys said bro
But I couldn’t put down the phone
Something in the way you said hello
Made me want to write it down
Come back to me
Let’s feel the same way as before
That night on the balcony
I held you like I meant it
You pushed back
Perhaps it was a lie?
Come back to me
Let me know
Don’t lie
Let’s meet another night
And go to hell, heaven, the moon, wherever