Summary Of On Infatuation By Piper Grace Yerkes

Piper Grace Yerkes

On Infatuation

Piper Grace Yerkes, born in 2000, went to the University of Pennsylvania for four years and received a degree in creative Writing and Neuroscience. She also has her Doctorate in Neuroscience. She currently is a Neurologist for Penn medicine and in her freetime writes creatively. Her writing pieces have been published in magazines, such as The New Yorker, and various newspapers. Much of her work is derived from her own personal experiences growing up and her everyday life now. Some of her popular works include ¨My Sister and I¨ and ¨Love You, Love Your Show¨. A city girl, Yerkes is inspired for “On Infatuation” through the love she sees tourist develop for the city, the love she sees people give, the love she has been given, and the heartbrakes she has witnessed.

The way his smile flashes across his face. The way his lips crease when he laughs. The way his eyes, chromatic blue eyes, glimmer in sunlight. The way he runs his slim fingers on the inside of her thigh. Every girl’s weakness. The way the wind carries his hair. The

Noticing the perfect symmetry that her face possess. Noticing how blemish free her face appears. Noticing how radiant her eyes are. She stares at her lips and smile. Noticing how parallel and white her teeth are. She analyzes how her lips move when she speaks. Listening to her voice. All of the little details that make her who she is, she has became infatuated with. Until one day she notices something abnormal between her eyebrows. It was blotchy, sore, and red in color. She was perplexed by what it was. She stares at it. It distorts how perfectly symmetrical her face was and how blemish free it was and how clear it was and how beautiful she believed she was. She was heartbroken. She thought “how can I be infatuated with myself if I developed such imperfections?”. Becoming infatuated with oneself often just leads to