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she does stretches on the sidewalk

across the road

then soft jumping jacks

then she touches her toes.

she doesn’t look at me.

i yell algebraic equations.

she says call me Roxie.

get naked and bite leather

and i do.

she says this isn’t true to us

i say i agree and

i’ll erase that line.

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i want to tell Julie i love her

but she tells me to bite leather

and i’m supposed to erase that.

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i want to tell Julie i love her

but i’m a garden by

blooming trees and soft peonies.

she says that’s not us.

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I’m warm from weed and beer and

some woman named Amanda

crosses her arms while I talk.

That’s more like it, she says.

I say this is heartbreak.

Yeah yeah.

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