I saw a man sitting outside a fast-food restaurant. He was asking for money. I didn’t have any cash. Like most people, I don’t carry cash anymore. I don’t need dollar bills or quarters for laundry.He never asked me. I was one of the ones that got away.I wasn’t one of those people that makes

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I would like to think differently, feel differently, taste the food entering my mouth differently.Except many years of reflectiondoes that to a woman, does that to me.Our skin becomes blemished, and it ought not be this way when we look into mirrors.We yearn for the days when therewere no wrinkles or muffin tops. We have

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After a while, it no longer matters. Gathering up the darkness in your arms. The empty corner waits patiently. He heard you speak and the echoes that followed. If you want to teach him that, go ahead. I will not wait anymore. You have shown your colors. They are dirty and gross after all. The

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I landed.Somewhere in the middle,that’s right, yeah.Middle of what, I’m not sure.All I know it’s the center,it feels funny.It’s true.The lies, that is.She won’t face it,knows enough about it though,bopping her on the face and all,leaving identifiable marks.That’s right, keep looking away.I surrendered.Heard something from outside,not quite right but still there.You couldn’t count them all,not

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