"Love in Prepositions"

"Love in Prepositions"

"I don’t want you to love me. I don’t even want you to like me. I don’t need these abstractions of you. I might want you to want me, I know what want is and I know that after the third time ( arbitrary as three is ) you must know want, mine or your own ( mine from yours), and you will respond to want with more want, at least a second one. So, maybe then I want you to want me.
 
But more than all that, I want your prepositions. I want the little yous. I could list them here: in, on, around, under, over, between, near, next to, on top of — now it’s getting too large; the little yous is all I want, probably all I need. I’ll list them again for you, but in context, that is, with body ( validity, actors and objects of prepositions and with vigor, at least implied): I want you in me; I want you on me; I want you all around me ( forgive the little flourish there ); I want you under me ( on occasion anyway, but mainly) I want you over, over top of me, on top of me ( to flesh out that earlier, 2nd earliest, scene still more); I want you between me (-?- or more exactly in me tearing me apart); I want you near me; I want you next to NR ( fearing [ calmer, less intrusive proximities, the only actual proximities ] that near won’t be near enough, that dimond nice could get in between us), I want you next to me and nobody else; more precisely (?)— I want you, and nobody else, next to me and nobody else ( such that no body else resides on both sides of both of us, except the side closest to us; or, rather, between us [closest to us being one being (and one being too little) and not valid in a world of prepositions] so, rather, excepting the side we share between us) I want to remember you as you were in relation to me.”

- Gary Fisher, Gary in Your Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher.