Tag: Relationships
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If Then Else End
If you don’t want me Then I don’t want you Else this love is false End if that is true
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A Small Man Belittled
She’d gone too far. This time, too far. She’d made a small man out of him, though he stood six foot something in his shabby cellar-worked shoes. This time, he’d seen her play around with one of the good old boys, seen her play him for a fool, which he was not. He had to…
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These Are Not My Hands
These Are The Hands Of My Fate It’s late. I’m reading a book, unlearning how to write, or maybe not. I see an old man’s hand turn the page. I see whitlows, ragged cuticles, little bitten nails, shiny skin, and wide open pores. Old hands. My mother’s hands, God help me.
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Two Wrongs
Neither Makes One Right He said, “This is love.” She said, “You don’t know real love.” Both of them were wrong.
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A Vignette
What have you been doing? Oh nothing much. What does that mean? Nothing much. This and that. Pottering. Pottering? Yes. Feeding the plants. Weeding. Bit of pruning. Bits and bats. Pottering. Is that all? It’s pathetic. No, it’s not all, actually. The main thing I’ve been doing is avoiding you.
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A Small Act Of Vengeance
The father arrives. He pulls up on the road and he beeps the horn and he waits. Perhaps he beeps again. But he always waits. The boys are never ready. He waits five, ten, sometimes more minutes, but he always has to wait. When the door of the house opens the boys run down to…
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A Mystery To Ourselves
A Mystery To Ourselves When I kissed you as you left today, we were as close as we could get and yet we were still indistinct to each other, from one another, thinking different things together, separating. We had been so close that what was on you was now on me. I took your scent,…
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What Shall We Do?
Shall we carry on like this, the way we are, close but not quite together? One couple that is two distinct people, different in every way except for our love for one another? Shall we continue, side by side but out of step, walking through life together, but in different directions? Is that such a…