The Staten Island Ferry

has become particularly painful to go on now. 'All passengers aboard must leave the ferry' the announcements would say as we would kiss and ignore each one until they got more and more urgent; until the sound of footsteps would be impossible to ignore; until we realized that we were one of the last people off the boat. you made the whole city all the more memorable and now that you're not here, it's not the same. i went on the ferry today and i could not and did not speak at all while i was on it. i sat and listened to michael and ranjit buzz in my ear but i was not really anywhere, i was just looking out of the window, in a limbo between winter break and spacing out.

all i know is, the city misses you, as do i. come back already.