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using soft pencil from the cutlery drawer through a face on it
toothy green i have circle for a nose and two men s and looking eyes
i drew a line from the mouth to the back side of the shall work printed
smile damnit
social filled in the kitchen like a condemned prisoner and plopped into her
chair
looking down into her lap hair hanging down over arise
arms lifeless center site
she had a terrible oversized sunglasses i didn't recognize perched on her head
the eggs firmed up in seconds i slipped them onto a plate in september for
your highness i said talking on the sounds of the today show coming from the
small television but underneath the cabinet
city lifted her head slowly looking first at the plates but then arise
called a little humpty dumpty character staring at her from atop a salt shaker
all mine god
she said
bringing up and in turning the shakers so she could read what was on the eggs
backside
smile yourself she said
there was something bordering on playful innervoice
new shades asked
absolutely like she'd forgotten sheets just put them there she touched one of
the arms made a minor adjustment
she said
i noticed the word bear such a printed in very tiny letters on the glasses
very nice i said
said not too tired lee
uh... late high asked
not athlete she said
goodnight slate i said
she knew there was no point two nine when she got in
never got to sleep until i heard ur come into our house on the hill street
unlocked the door behind ur
and asks you don't have with betty swain
who was also seventeen but gave up a viable but she was a little more
experienced vincent at the kinds of things that kept fathers up at night
might have been naive to think that he swing didn't already know about drinking
sex and drugs
but said wasn't exactly an angel
o'connor with pot what's and there was that time a couple years back when she
was fifteen
when she came home from the abercrombie and fixed or in stamford with a new
t-shirt and couldn't explain to him otherwise she had no receipt
big fireworks over that one
maybe that's why the sunglasses word niggling at me
but those such a back
not that much she said
asbury past
not so much to find out how she was just to confirm said had been with their
they'd been friends only a hero so but they'd spent so much time together it
was as if their friendship went back to kindergarten
i liked betty