you left me for dead in a musty motel room in the dirty southwest. it was february and the texas sun was already burning my porcelain skin. a year in the northwest had been cruel to me. whiskey and barbituates. texas would end me. it was so sneaky and so cynical the way you did it. there was no knife to my heart. no punctured lung. you didn't shoot
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our bodies were buried in the city. our legs, winding highways. our veins margins for imperfection. loss. lust. your skin was a shade darker than mine. you had spent five months in the desert improving your grammar and keen eyesight. i had spent three years draining pools and mixing sulfuric acid and chlorine. later i learned that was not a deadly
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