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Nick and Gatsby

March 8, 2023
By Anonymous

Are we Nick and Gatsby?

Am I just being used,

Is it really Daisy your in love with,

After I spent my time?

Calling you name with love.

Is it really fair that she be your green light

When your mine?

 


Is it fair that you hold me with such compassion and talk as if you love me,

When I’m actuality she’s the one you love.

Is it fair when she still loves Tom?

 


Her eyes wonder when he walks past

You are not her green light and if you are

There is fog over the bay.

 


However there’s no fog over my doc

I may have “someone” back home

But she’s not you I’ve never loved her in that sense.

 


I love your beautiful blond hair

I love your opal eyes

I love the way you smile and your eyes crinkle

I live for your sense of humor

I live for you lovely attitude

I love you

 


Please wake up and see that she would not send a flower she would simply leave and ruin you

I would tell the minister to wait 30

Minutes I would call everyone you ever met if you went away…

So please let us rewrite our narrative of nick and Gatsby.


The author's comments:

We read The great Gatsby in class and the more I read it the more I related to Nicks situation. He loves Gatsby (whether it’s romantic or platonic is your own interpretation) but Gatsby lives Daisy. I live this dude but he loves my best friend I think. I keep hoping that eventually he’ll see how much effort I put in and how much she doesn’t. Idek if that’s toxic or what but yk.


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