i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

i love north carolina in ways that i am incapable of expressing verbally because they are so numerous, people and places and things and food and carolina basketball, and because these numerous things lie so close to my heart and my soul and the core entity of who i am, but right now i am sitting on mikey and beth's 14th floor balcony at one in the morning, listening to the el rattle and the taxis honk below me, and i love chicago so intensely that i kind of want to cry.