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After the Movie by Marie Howe - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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After the Movie - My friend Michael and I are walking home arguing about the movie

After the Movie Add to anthology × Marie Howe My friend Michael and I are walking home arguing about the movie. He says that he believes a person can love someone and still be able to murder that person. I say, No, that’s not love. That’s attachment. Michael says, No, that’s love. You can love someone, then come to a day when you’re forced to think “it’s him or me” think “me” and kill him. I say, Then it’s not love anymore. Michael says, It was love up to then though. I say, Maybe we mean different things by the same word. Michael says, Humans are complicated: love can exist even in the

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