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Composition 101: Compare/Contrast

I. A Brief Mythology

Women who drink
wear lipstick called Cabaret,
or Kimono, bought without breaking
a second dollar,
smeared during truck stop
blowjobs alluded to over plates
of soft scrambled eggs,
longed for looking down I95,
given for the hell of it
because why the fuck not.


II. Late Afternoon Reality


Women who write
stare at chipped paint
in an empty room on Floyd Avenue
and invent names like Bourbon Brown,
Burnt Sugar,

reluctantly settling on something wholesome -
Winter Wheat -
before abandoning those walls
to rouse the black, sleeping dog
with a rope and bright seduction:

Come on, just one game?

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