TOUGH LOVE It’s tough, loving you my love, for sometimes you’re as edgy and spiteful and mean as a junkyard bitch on a tether; all snarling teeth and gleaming claws, and it’s tough not to fight back at those times. I’m a word man, see, and I know words that flay like a Tsarist knout; words that scald and burn; napalm words that stick to your brain and won’t come off. Forever. You try to brush them off, and they stick to your hands and burn you to the bone and beyond. It’s tough not to hurl those... Sign in to see full entry.