Duane Michals, Certain Words Must Be Said, 1976

“Things had become impossible between them, and nothing could be salvaged. Certain words must be said. And although each one had said those words, a hundred times to herself, they had never had the courage to song them outloud to one another. So they began to hope that someone else would say the word for them. Perhaps a telegram might arrive or a letter delivered that would say what they could not. Now they spent their days waiting. What else could they do?”