Title image showing subtly melancholy black-and-white close-up of an Asian woman with her eyes closed, her short, glossy dark hair obscuring half of her face. The photograph is superimposed over a grayed-out LGBT pride flag, and blow the portrait in red letters is an inscription reading, "Sincerely, The Card You Jokers Like to Play." [Photo editing done by Ahsoka Jackson.]

Your Idea of Love—A November Poem

I very much understand if for ethical or other reasons you don’t feel comfortable reading explicit material. However, I would ask and recommend that you read the Author’s Note I have here in order to gain understanding of the project’s purpose, and also to find out an important statistic that you may not have heard before.