endangered species

me and my bff have been doing an autopsy on romance. i dunno tho, i think it may be premature. he says that when you kill the divine, you kill romance, because romance is the province of the divine. without divinity, the absurdities necessary for romance cannot ever come into being. he's been reading kierkegaard. i have not. i'd rather believe that the divine is still possible. and since i'm my own authority, if i believe then, absurdly, there is possibility.


i'm absurd therefore it is? wait, i think i'm mixing cause and effect here. absurdity may be needed for romance to flourish, especially in these times when it seems that our society has been hollowed out, but is romance always absurd?

in my experience it has been. to hope is almost always absurd, and certainly romantic. unrequited attraction seems to be the norm, rather than the other way around. normality does not allow for romantic love. head over heels is just another phrase for inversion. or somersaults. like what the heart seems to do when presented with the impossible...future.