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The man informed her that her brother was a failure. It was important to him for her to know this. It was important to him to present himself as contrast: the shining example. The very definition she had abandoned some years after her brother had led the way. How kind of him to remind her…

A dog

It’s cold out here, waiting in this line. In this darkness. It’s hard to make out where it leads… a queue to a nightclub… maybe… Street lights illuminate the backs of lovers’ heads; lined up, humming, endless. A parent’s voice rises above that mess, “This way, love. This is how you do it.” “I know…

Here

we have been down every corridor each door we open holds a different scene but we have been through it we search for an exit from this maze a door to some new place but it is endless here

What’s left

three closed books one open book two closed books two open books one closed book three open books no one left to open any books piles and piles of books

When I used to love you (I didn’t even know you)

i could wait for hours wait for you and no one else no one else – no time for them no one else could ever hold my attention – i was cold for hours and hours – hours waiting for your affection i wouldn’t ever count the hours hours were never part of it time…

Bargain Basement Aphorism #1

Etiquette is purely for those who don't know themselves, which is why it's important we all learn it.

It will have to do (the problem)

I want to share your breath, I eat your lips. It will have to do. I want to inhabit your being, I engulf your body. It will have to do. I want to be your child, I push inside you. It will have to do. I want to see what you see, I stare upon…