Pompous display of affection

1.

"I'm irreparably fractured &
we will not die together. I have
lots of problems, but I am a
good person, I guess you could say."

"Does anybody care if you're a
good person?"

"That's what you take away?"

"I take away breath.
What do you take me for."

2.

He said:
She said:

3.

I am as open as the door
on her refrigerator
in the middle of winter
after it's thrown away
--languishing underwater
in an old quarry, say--

("entombed in ice," a lesser
writer might say)

years later,
rusted,
cold,
but yes, open.