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8.4.16

Excerpt: Bright Lights, Big Department Store

I fashion myself 
in this
lime green, strapless
it’s how I’m seen
drinking Crystal Light
at the pool
laughing
all my friends


I want to be her

perfect and 
strawberry-kiwi

removing color
from the lips

so I go to get
another one of myself
this time more
relaxed posture
an ease of achievability 
from the neck up
it’s quite simple
you see
just the addition of





I part 
in the middle
so easy since birth
what we’re made for


I will do this 
for the rest of my life


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