#title When the Getting was Good #author Ianna Hawkins Owen #SORTauthors Ianna Hawkins Owen; #date 2008 #source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/377-march-2008/getting-good]] #lang en #pubdate 2014-10-09 #notes Fifth Estate #377, March 2008 You are like a boulder and I was trapped under you I am like that kid who went climbing, like that kid who was smashed between you and a hard place who had to cut off his own arm just to get away from you. There is a sea anemone that can reverse the flow of its own heart. Can you imagine? In fact, it has to do that in order to survive. That means even if it wanted to keep on loving you it couldn’t. Otherwise it would die.