Written on a postcard of a plastic-sheeted room with a surgery table in the middle: Oh.Yes.God is with you. Where a stamp could go but it won’t stick to the saran wrap:MiamiJan 23, 2006You are my hero.
Category Archives: Love Letter Project
A Love Letter to LOST
Written on a postcard of The Island, shifting between the now and then: Your brilliancetranscendsspace & time. Where a stamp could go but there is a Hatch instead:Somewhere in the PacificJanuary 22, 2009Thinking it’s amazing to know I’m not the only one who has dreams that are memories.
Not a Love Letter to Stephenie Meyer
Written on a postcard embossed with the cover of the Twilight series’ finale, Breaking Dawn: Did someonedrop youon your headas a baby? Where the stamp could go that if needed I would affix with a smear of vomit:PragueJanuary 23, 2009Is what’s wrong with you this simple it becomes pointless to hate you?
A Love Letter to Wounded Knee
Written on a sepia-toned postcard of blood-stained snow: The heart of mineburied with youburns with the acheof injustice. Where a stamp could go but there is only sadness:Pine Ridge POW CampDecember 29, 1890I am haunted by your history.
A Love Letter to Seinfeld
Written on a Superman postcard taped to Jerry’s fridge: Nothingisfunny. Where a stamp could go but George is too cheap to buy one:ManhattanNovember 15, 2008You are a fungus funnily growing on me.
A Love Letter to Bad Fairies
Written on a Brian Froud-esque postcard of the eerie park at Karlovo Namesti: Even whenyou are badyou are goodto me. Where a mushroom-shaped stamp could go it says:Prague 2, Nove MestoNovember 5, 2008I realised that in Prague there is a huge difference between places with bad energy and places with bad fairies. I’m lucky enough…
A Love Letter to Chocolate
Written on a Kama Sutra bedroom postcard: Give me moreof your sweetcomfort foodness.Where a stamp might go but there’s a smudge instead:Everywhere you are nearNovember 5, 2008 (and always)Yumalicious. You, mmmmmmmmmm.
A Love Letter to Praguers
Written on a cheesy postcard of Charles Bridge: Why soglum,chum?And why still hereif it brings you no cheer? Where the stamp could go it says:PragueNovember 5, 2008Just wondering why 95% of the people I see on your streets are scowling, frowning, miserable-looking ground-starers. I seem only to see smiles from foreigners, and it’s really depressing.
A Love Letter to Timeservers
Written on a ticking postcard clock with a smiley face: You area complete and utterwaste of precious life time. Where a stamp should go but there’s another little clock flashing 0:00:November 4, 2008In generalI don’t know why I never recognise you until I’ve already invested so much energy and emotion…
A Love Letter to Mean Girls
Written on a postcard mirror: All the cosmeticsin the worldcould never hidethe true hideousnessthat is you. Where a stamp should go but there is only your emptiness:November 4, 2008EverywhereI would pity you if you weren’t so hateful.
A Love Letter to The Slutty Bitches At Work
Written on a postcard of a thong-clad xeroxed ass: You cuntssuckbig fat ones. Where a stamp could go:November 4, 2008Old Town, PragueAnd you wonder why you’re all still single?
A Love Letter to Giselle
Written on a postcard made from the Enchanted DVD box: Iwannabejustlikeyou. Where a stamp could go but your song will deliver it:October 31, 2008Andalasia, across from The Valley of ContentmentYou are so lovely an inspiration.
A Love Letter to Sarah Palin
Written on an Obama 2008 postcard: YOUarethe lipstickon an olddried uppig. Where a stamp could go:October 26, 2008Washington D.C.That’s why they needed to spend that $150,000 for the clothes on your fat, ignorant, gun-toting, hypocritical ass.Burn, you hateful bitch.Oh, and how is the teenage mother also known as your daughter?
A Love Letter to RedRoom
Written on the back of one of your cards with it’s double R logo: You were along,expensive,and unsatisfyingone night stand.Where a stamp could go if I cared any more to send it:October 22, 2008Myslikova 28Goodbye and godspeed.Moving on, moving forward.
A Love Letter to Tree Hill
Written on a postcard of the River Court, where Peyton’s poem slowly fades: You arethe hometownI never had. Where a stamp could go:October 21, 2008Somewhere not quite here or thereThere’s no place like home.
A Love Letter to Self-Sufficiency
Written in bathroom steam: You don’t know what you’ve got’til it’s goneand refreshingly back again. Where I hang up my towel:October 20, 2008Benatska 5, PragueAfter 8 weeks of double wrist injuries: I just bathed my own self and dried my own hair without any help at all.What a feeling.
A Love Letter to Steerek H. Love
Written on the tapestry of your kindness: There is a God-like qualityto your infiniteand loving patience.Where you brand everything with tender care:October 20, 2008 and alwaysPragueI am the most happy that it is you who will always be by my side.
A Love Letter to Physical Therapy
Written on postcard wrists using ultrasound gel: NoPainNoGain Where a stamp could go:October 20, 2008Lekarsky Dum (The Healing House), PragueI had no idea you’d be so rough.Then again, I’d no idea that six weeks with both hands in braces would feel better than this.
A Love Letter To Dexter Morgan
Wrtten on a blood-spattered plastic tarp In between a pool and scattered drops: Your vengeanceis totallyspotonWhere a stamp could adhere itself without my help:October 19, 2008Miami, FloridaSick, but true
A Love Letter to Lisa Nanek
Written on a ticket stub for “Mamma Mia!” transformed into a postcard The blank space says: You are sunshinePersonifiedWhere a stamp should go it says:October 18, 2008PragueJust thinking about how special you areand how happy I am to know you.
A Love Letter To Healing
Written with my left hand: Slow going, indeed,but each day a little bit furtherforward with you.On a fingernail I imagine:October 7, 2008PragueThankful.I am very, very thankful to have you in my life right now.
A Love Letter To Gus Vinestebb
Written on a patch of fairy grass in the courtyard that serves as my apartment’s backyard From the spot where I stood for some time in wonderment: What a mostdelightful accident.Where a stamp would go a white flower blooms and inside it says:October 11, 2008Benatska 5, PragueDude, thank you. You seriously rock.
A Love Letter To Office Politics
A postcard-shaped email featuring my purple work signature where my name is always the smallest text for some unknowable technical reason Written in the blank space over the grayscale company logo: GoSuckAnEggWhere a stamp would go it says:Prague, Czech RepublicOctober 15, 2008Am I meant to do my job or focus on you?
Goddess Angelina
My friend Kirsten Westby used to work in a refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and when the children in the camp would find out she was an American, they would rush to ask her if she knew a lady named Angelina. Kirsten would respond no and the kids would proceed to…
a love letter to The Singer/Guitarist of Jimmy Eat World
written on a postcard shaped like the final disc of the ‘one tree hill’ season finale on the flip side it is written: you remind me of someone i love so muchthat in my longing and missing of him i almost forgotthat now i know there is youwhere the stamp should go:november 2, 2006istanbul, turkey…
a love letter to Gwendolyn Wendy-Bird
written on the back of one of the odes you wrote to me in what was blank spaces i painted in pink and green and red a bunch of swirls and palm trees and you flying with your wild curly hair and i write: six years later and the wishing you were here is wishing…
a love letter to M. Night Shyamalan
Dear Mr. Shyamalan, So often I am touched by art created by another and in the immediate afterglow of the experience want to write to tell them how and how much it affected me. I never end up writing the letters and they are beginning to fill a cabinet within my heart. I don’t know…
not a love letter to TEFL
written on a clock in the time it takes my teacher to write notes on my fifth teaching practice heading up to the hour and a half mark it says: this is not even about how my teaching wentthis is about your lack of power and your need to control those around you within my…
a love letter to Hypochondria
written on a postcard that is the ether of my various paranoias where there is hardly any space to write because there are so many: my obsession with you has become too much for me.why do you always convince me that there is something wrong? where the stamp would go it says:granada, spainjune 13-16 2006there…
not a love letter to TEFL
written on the back of a verb conjugation table on a blank space not covered by stupid irregular rules of english which can’t really be rules if they are irregular: bashing my head into a wall is more fun than youand i would probably lose less brain cells where a stamp would not go because…
a love letter to Freiya Slicern-Day
written on a postcard that is a picture of the jamaican flag on the blank space that has a grayscale image of bob marley: i miss dancing with youand seeing your eyes light up when you smilewhere the stamp should go it says:granada, spainjune 2, 2006i send you so much loveuntil i see you again
a love letter to C.C. Stake Manney
written on a postcard of wyoming with you as an octopus, tentacles reaching out embracing the great open spaces and a big smile on your face: on the blank space that is the color of sand: like all goddessesyour wonders never ceaseto amaze mewhere a stamp should go it says:granada, spainjune 2, 2006thinking of you…
not a love letter to Men Who Respect Ike Turner
written in a postcard that is the mess of blood and tears and pain you leave in your wake on a blank space: like rapists and pedophileswho you are should be punishable by castration.where a stamp could go but there is foulness:may 22, 2006granada, spainwhy don’t you fuckers leave nice women alone?leave my friend faracy…
a love letter to Global Warming
written on a postcard that is a photo of snow on the foothills of the Jura Mountains in late may on the blank space, that is not covered with snow: you have a very big problem, my friend where the stamp could go it says:thoiry, francemay 10, 2006i am staging an intervention,your manic depression is…
a love letter to Erinn Ka Breer
written on a postcard of things working out on the blank space: light among lights,you are the lighthouse of souls where a stamp should go it illuminates:may 10, 2006thoiry, francei don’t know how i existed so long without your presence in my life.ka is the Middle Earth word for fate, destiny, the path that was…
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