making the heart sign with your hands

i knew

that eventually i'd get sick of her

when

she started doing

that popular thing

with her hands, making

a heart sign

with her thumb

and fingers.

holding it up with a big smile

for me to see.

for some reason her doing

that made

me queasy. i felt an enormous

sense of cringe, not

to mention when

she would say Ciao all

the time

when leaving,

like she was Audrey Hepburn

or someone.

i don't know why

exactly that bothered me,

but it did.