Please Just Leave Me Alone: I Just Need Space

Before every book reaches a shelf, it begins as an idea.

This week, we're opening the door to one of those ideas. Below are selected excerpts from Please Just Leave Me Alone: I Just Need Space by Monet Marcel by Delray—a chapbook exploring digital loneliness, intimacy, and memory.

Read the excerpts, and step into the world the author has created.

1

Can't stay in one spot for long, would you be cool with that if we dated?

I wonder why you can't stay

in one spot for a long time-

don't speak cause you often

reply with things you openly

deny-not meant

for present company

10

Would you ever give your

ex a second chance? 

Why?

Would my ex give me a

chance

finally or would

be exactly the same

again...and she

never really gave me

a chance before

(answering the why) 

I will say that this

is in the context of

misspending time with

me and introducing

me to her part of

her life so I would

understand

her POV

12

Be honest, would you ever think of travelling alone?

I have been waiting for my grandpa

To do not going to lie —/ at the point I'm on my own

That when I just leave — if you know me the you

About Author

Monet Marcel by Delray is a Detroit-based writer, publisher, playwright, poet, and literary theorist working through grief, recovery, Black queer memory, civic record, and the strange architecture of survival. Through MDNT MRKT CONT, he builds books, magazines, plays, and critical objects shaped by bone, archive, city, and voice. His work treats solitude as evidence, language as shelter, and the page as a place where private ruin becomes public form.

This work appears with the author’s permission. 

Copyright © Monet Marcel by Delray. All rights reserved

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