written over eleven months

Four drafts. None of them sent.

You've been sitting in my drafts for a while. This is me finally hitting send.

The one I typed at 1am

Deleted at 1:04.

open this

You,

Write the version you'd only send at 1am — too much, too honest, no edits.

Don't fix the tone. The tone is the point.

— never sent

kept, not sent ~

The ones you never knew I saved.

thirty seconds, one take, no retries

Now write it properly. Shorter than the 1am one.

Say the thing, then stop. Don't explain it away in the last line — that's the draft you've already deleted four times.

— me