I had to leave her after she complemented a really inferior wine. The waiter saw my expression and empathized. It’s not me it’s you, I said.
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We finished up with the all-you-can-eat buffet and I said, I don’t think I’m ever going to eat again and that’s when she decided to leave me.
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He can sense her disappointment. He’s disappointed people before. But her’s stings. She can’t even look at him. I used to be famous, he says.
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She said, Your love’s too big for me, and he smiled and said, No one’s said that to me before, and she let him think what he wanted to think.
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He’s the dude who brushes his teeth in the employee washroom. His boss says, You always smell minty fresh. Then again, she has yellow teeth.
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The cop was breathing heavily. You run fast, he huffed. Then he hit me with his nightstick. I fell to the ground. You run fast, he repeated.
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When it was obvious we were lost I said to her, I’ll need to ask for directions. She squeezed my hand. Our relationship had turned a corner.
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The rooms brightens with her in it. She wears the kind of clothes that show she doesn’t need to care. I approach. Can I see your toes? I ask.
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I turned off the TV and turned on the stereo and leaned in, but then she gave me that look, so I turned off the stereo and turned on the TV.
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You called me a monster. Because I impugned your mother’s virtue. But I was very proud of the insult. Until the moment your fist hit my face.
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