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The soft lunch that ended a relationship
Many years had passed. I cannot tell you how many, because I don’t know when it came to the kind of end that allowed years to pass. All I know is that we spoke, we fucked, we fought, and then I did not hear his voice for years. Until one morning, when he woke me Continue reading
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I Have A Couple Of Things To Say To You, Actually.
You don’t look good in that cap. Remove it this instant. How could you ruin that beautiful head of hair? How could you mess it up so badly?remove it. I lay in bed all day today and yesterday, and last week- when I could. Then I gathered the energy I found in tiny crevices that Continue reading
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About her
Some nights, when she knows I am alone she’ll come down and knock twice. If I catch it, I open. She won’t enter, no. Not until she holds my heart and feels it beat, at twice the speed. She turns me around, and puts it back in. Brings her lips closer, as it beats quicker. Continue reading
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How That Night Went
I have only a vague memory of this- the few sensations I could salvage from a piece of memory soaked in alcohol- it was my birthday after all. We sat on my bed, fresh sheets- a deep red with specks of gold, laid out clean and straight a few hours before. On my body is Continue reading
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This Panda Lamp
I had forgotten about this Panda lamp until a few moments ago when I realized all the three bulbs in my room did not have enough power except for when it came to ruining my already weak eyesight. This Panda lamp was collecting dust in an old shelf. I suspected that it would not work, Continue reading
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Brownies
Can food become your comfort place? I am aware of the existence of comfort food. But that is a long, tedious process. One must drag themselves into a badly ventilated kitchen that makes you hot and sticky, and slave over pots and pans for a really long time, only to remove all traces of it’s Continue reading
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Wine My Muse
Wine burns your lips. If you only kiss it, without really trying to sip it, it will burn into your precious pink lips. So, you must sip it. You must consume it whole, and feel the toxic residue lingering in your mouth, etched into your breath. Funny thing, this wine. It will tempt you as Continue reading
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