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Exchange Last Day of May Hollie N. Stewart Wa tch the crumbs fall from my cracked brain snapped in two to a place called familiar love song, played in the air of the Ross Dress-For-Less, less pleasing than the ingrown toenail plucked from my crying foot by rough, male hands. I bled two days straight. "I don't know how you do what you do." I shuttered when you grew, as my heart opened walnut-style, piece next to virgin piece. With scared, sweaty palms, I priced you among various blouses, jeans, plucking you from the hanger, calling you mine. ''I'm so in love with you." I dressed up, painted my face, dropped you down my throat whole. You hired the interior decorator to recreate the meat of me with pink Nair, with short skirts of red plaid. "It just keeps getting better. " You reached extra large, your tongue chopping my heart paper-thin. I continued walking until you dropped me, tearing skin, bleeding me in red, translucent colors. 84
Tea Ta lk Anja Leigh She sits with her back against the high, hand-painted ceilings sipping Ceylon tea on New Year's Eve recalling past lovers, young, ol.d, discarded. The chase more passionate than the catch. She leans forward and confides, "Men are worthless; maybe I should try women." Then she pulls her changeling eyes from daytime dreams, reaches for a raisin scone spread with clotted cream, takes a deep breath and modestly licks her fingers. In the middle of tho afternoon, tea is served with reservation at the Biltmore Hotel by Armando who lives in Sylmar and rides the Red Line Metro downtown to Pershing Square. The table is set with stories stained like raspberry jam on white Linen tablecloths. One tiny cake crumb lingers on the corner of her mouth. 85
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