die with them.
Black men aren't abbreviated Americans there
they're just Frenchmen.
4.
Probability survey says prognosis negative, her
featherweight
stiletto heels hit metal pang bang, slip
lips on mine, neon bodies spooned in twine.
Men nicknamed her nickname Corner Café
(finest
café to come since 60s pinups) although
for twenty-five minutes she is my only, literally
passion devours, until afterwards when we are
dire animals
married atoms sparking pilfered uranium
she whispers her nickname: Al-Rahabat
Boulevard
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over outside noises and licks my ear: Fuck the
guards.
Chest hurts; she anaconda squeezes, releases
CRACK-SNAP-CRACK
excessive onomatopoeias, throws medusa fits
so she isn't the one stoned to death, ready to eat
rare if necessary.
5.
take her fake down pillow and feign suffocation. I mutter offhandedly
about The Dead I Bury
ferry, how the nights look different, sky darker
than nights of
mine sweeps, worse job to have after sweating in
bed.
She asks a question, like she did in the beginning
of our relationship, whatever remnant
relationship there is to be had:
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