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once touched
“having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood,or aloes; hard to bear; grievous;distressful; causing pain; piercing; stinging;characterized by intense antagonism or hostility” Millsis Adoma, she said it to me in bed “”but, it can’t be liftedyou were a manacle, like speaking in code: Adoma Millsis one_ touched. the memories you placed…
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>Three-Quarters of an Inch
>Three-quarters of an inch of wine pasted at the bottle’s belly, patiently swindling. Soft, / chamber music macramés the walls, back of my head stuck between the hairs, drips from the ceiling. She’s somewhere / at the top of the steps, getting ready for Church. Outside the wind conspires, I see it, the sun in…