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Your Mouth

I think, by now, it’s clear: things are not going the way either you or I expected. You keep telling me to watch what I say but I can’t help but reverse it. I am constantly staring at your mouth … Continue reading

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Disinfectants

I hid the cake under the microwave in the drawer with the disinfectants because I suspected you wouldn’t be going anywhere near there anytime soon. I hid the cake – what was left of it – under a towel so … Continue reading

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That Greenpoint Roof

I really wish you’d given me your real name when we were making out on that Greenpoint roof last week. I doubted that you would – it seemed so unlikely there would be a Mabel in this day and age … Continue reading

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Pansy Maybe

Pansy Maybe I’m all right. Don’t worry about me. I meant to do that thing, banana split falling into this snowdrift blocks and blocks from my destination. It was planned, see? I’m here for a reason. Don’t you worry about … Continue reading

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Ghost 6

Ghost 6 I always knew you’d go which may be why you left but doesn’t change the fact that I go on living through echoes of you. In the halls pix on walls voice memos from saved calls it might … Continue reading

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Buster

Your college dog is dead. That T-shirt you got as a gift from the girl who just thought of you as a friend (yeah, that one) has got a hole in the front from when you poked it too hard … Continue reading

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Encyclopedic

She is an encyclopedia filled with information on a variety of important subjects: “I can recite pi to the fortieth digit,” she says. “I know the birthdays of all of the Founding Fathers,” she states. “That’s not a preposition,” she … Continue reading

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Dark Ladies

What a strange coincidence, she said, seeing you here. You’re not stalking me, are you? You have got quite the opinion of yourself, I answered, believing that I’m here in any way, shape or form because of you. I mean, … Continue reading

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Colony

The yogurt on the bottom shelf of my overstocked refrigerator seems to no longer be yogurt but rather some other thing entirely. Something sentient. Something inedible. The yogurt once unearthed from beneath last month’s pizza and last summer’s carrots and … Continue reading

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Weird Beard

Your facial hair is a foolish, fallacious failure. It embarrasses you, your forefathers and faithfully warrants you’ll be no one’s forefather yourself. It’s ugly is what I’m saying. Your beard is dumb. It’s misshapen and it’s no wonder that its … Continue reading

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