Names

Pet names, Lipstick names, the name of fictional celebrities—there’s a certain magic in what they impose, or dissect, or measure, an ability only possessed within the confines of its creation—with you and a lover, you and the Dior beauty counter, you and Sex and the City. Once these modes of identification span beyond these relationships, they lose their sincerity thus lending themselves to satire. When he calls me Bunny and Kitten I only think its cringe when I screenshot a text, then it becomes something to laugh at, be embarrassed by.