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Things could be

but I don’t know how.

Like that time Jerry

threw

a computer across the room

and Francis

cried

in the

bathtub.

I

forgot.

I forgot a middle name

and T is engaged now.

/// well//

I never slept in the

childhood room

- Rats.

And Uncle Larry

- an alcoholic.

And Ken dead

- an addict.

And Jules takes a breath.

And I threw the cork away

and that’s a day

spent drunk

under the sheets.

and she realizes

we’ve had enough

when I climb off the balcony.

And she pulls me

from a four floor fall

- we make love

like two wildcats fighting

but I don’t know how.

P