That’s What She Said
sorry, I’m so sorry
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the migraine is ripe & yellow as a mango
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I shot out like a lizard’s tongue in the church of deadlines
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the caulk broke due to an infinite, unnamable leak
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the leak produced mold as a free economic zone
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lorem ipsum dolor
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to hold meaningless until great distress
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my apologies there were so many
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emails excuse me
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I wanted to
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I had every intention
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to make the spine twisting like a stair
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confess its termites
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does that make sense, let me know if you need me to
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have any questions openly ended
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there has been an explosion in my calf or labia
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sorry I meant calendar
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I was under it
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dictionary, radical helmet, the wind gossip whips
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up in the bamboos, imminent derelictions saved as PDFs
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I have attached everything, resent
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all my high resolutions
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please eat or can/did
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the grin of the washing machine’s
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facial recognition software, tomorrow/some time I will
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be hearted & whetting, having successfully
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delayed the onset of symptoms, glued
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my bulb of pheromones in these Baltic years of our landlord
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pleased for your consideration, thank
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you from & apologies once
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more with the butane sincerity of the bottomest for
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the inconvenience, this skin
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flaming like a horn
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Photograph of Cynthia Dewi Oka by Jose Quintana.
