Goldfish
"Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don't fool." - Robert Brault Goldfish ‘Love is a Cannibal.’ October 5, 2026 — Courtesy of Co-Star, astrology app and teller of Whatever I Want To Hear. Love , definition #4, courtesy of Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “unselfish, loyal, and benevolent concern for the good of another." Cannibal , courtesy of Merriam-Webster Dictionary: “one that eats the flesh of its own kind.” When I picture love as a cannibal, literally, it is an image that is difficult to digest. But it’s not necessarily one person eating another. I see this Voldemort-type, featureless, embryonic thing with its tail in its mouth, bloated but somehow also skeletal and teething away at basically nothing. Why is it eating itself? I don’t know. So, ‘Love is a Cannibal.’ When I was five, I had two pets. There was Tudor, my family’s then six-month-old, almost one hundred pound Great Pyrenees, and Sparky, my goldfish with a peculiarly...