Maria-Alexandra Baciu
so, let me tell you something:
I cut off my hands and buried them under a cherry tree.
I lied, it wasn’t a cherry tree but I don’t know the kind of
tree it really was so pick a tree, and that tree will be the one
that I bury my hands under. a person I didn’t know the name
of said, there’s more to life than love. really, you think so?
what makes you say that? tell me something the lady selling
bundles of daffodils on the corner of the street can’t. you thought
you did something smart, you thought this was going to change
my perspective, but tell me what I should’ve said when the lady
in the long skirt who instead of asking me for money asked,
you’re a beautiful girl, but does anyone love you?
are you loved, my girl?
Maria-Alexandra Baciu is a Romanian-born writer, currently living in London. She is a Goldsmiths University of London alum, having completed both a BA in English and Creative Writing and a MA in Creative and Life Writing there. Her work is published in the first edition anthology by Oblique House called Lineage.