I make a point
to maintain distance in my storytelling.
I believe the only way you can control the story
master the events
understand and describe what you want to
with pinpoint clarify
is remotely.

This means separate.
This means unemotional.
This means with quiet reserve
and space and breadth to be separate
from what you want to tell.

So
though I write about "I" and "me"
and "she" and "he,"
in my head, I know that they are "the narrator"
and the "object of desire" or "the conflict."
It is never about my life
but simply about imagination.

Please understand all this
Alexandra Bruger
Fifty Ninth Avenue
Apartment 3W
and realize it is not about you.
It is about me
and there distance I need
for my stories.