i love you more than the law will let me, 1 The hands reinforcing the barricade mean I love you. The shoulders pressed against the hard surface, weight leaning forward over the bent knees, strained ankles, the pressure on the balls of the feet—a cluster of heels defying the slide of the pavement means I love you. My mask, every mask means I love you, I love you. The linked arms, the stranger’s hand on your back shoulder, the synchronicity means I don’t know you but I love you.