Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) wrote a relatively unknown book called The Beatrice Letters, which I haven’t read and can’t find (maybe used?) in the usual places where I find books. I’ve only seen it reviewed; nevertheless, it inspired the poem below. Intertextuality is hilarious, isn’t it?

Here is a brief discussion of The Beatrice Letters, by one of the best booktubers out there. I mean out here, because I’m out here now, in the interwebs. Cool.

And here’s my little poem.

Ergo

I will love you even if you
never know that I exist,
if it never occurs to you
that I should have existed
but never did.

I will love you even if I
realize I never existed
and nothing that exists
around me – or doesn’t – is real.

I will love you if we never meet
because we won’t.

J. Kyle Kimberlin
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