Month: October 2023
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butter soup
the guests at table 41 are making out. the couple at 42, scowling. i can’t say i blame any of them, there’s only about two feet physical distance between the tables; a mirrored alcove of intimacy and starched white linen, the tables standalone yet banquetted together as they look out over the enormous gray and…
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monocle
i remember how the late summer grasshoppers jumped like tight corn kernels in a hot oiled pan. i remember how my teeth would squeak and sink into the lip of the styrofoam cup; the smell of the icy cold milk inside. i remember the early september day our cellphones wouldn’t work and how we walked…