The Love Song of Chandler from ​Friends ​ (Season 6, Ep. 25)

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Written by Meg Ruocco

Photography by Noah Laroia-Nguyen 

The Love Song of Chandler from ​Friends ​ (Season 6, Ep. 25)Because it’s you and meyou know?Standing in a snowfall.The sky is the inside of an inkpotmurky and close.Crystals pile in the roadsand maybe somewhere someone can’t see if a light is greenand they keep goingslow.Our breaths are a cloudand I’m contributing somethingwith you.And yeah, the tips of our ears are coldbut it’swhole.safe.quiet.I imagined when I’d found the one they’d be like that.Radiant. You.A snowstorm. Poet’s Note: The title is inspired by the episode where Chandler proposes to Monica. I re-imagined what it would sound like if he attempted to write a poem based off of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": displaying a different meaning than Eliot’s work, but acknowledging the themes of nature, cities, love, and a little bit of wariness played into the original poem.

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