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capricordestin

Published: Aug 25, 2011

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i.
let's share the loneliness, she said
we'll fill our hollow hearts with cranberry juice and pancakes
we'll dance, sing and make musicals about our life
we'll be the happiest imperfect people on earth
he smiled; laughing openly seemed too cynical

ii.
coiffures and mortgages stole our money, he said
we'll get ourselves a barking crocodile to get rid of mice
we'll sleep for a million years [and so much longer]
we'll call each other names and curse until our tongues start bleeding
she smiled; sobbing wouldn't change a thing

iii.
this is the cleft in being-together-yet-not-really, they said
we'll turn musicals into tragedies, crocodiles into rubber ducks
we'll eat our hollow hearts— and sleeping is for the roses
we'd just multiply the loneliness
they smiled; there was nothing else left

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