You see... by Grant Tierney Dehne You see, the problem with Ana is that she is too literal. When I tell her, I never want to leave your skin, she doesn’t get dressed for work. When I text, U SMELL GOOD ON MY HANDS, she stops showering. And when I encourage with, I love the way your hair feels when it’s on my belly button, she spends her days half-in half-out of clean and dirty thoughts. And my words are meant to be lies. I don’t want to hurt her. I just want to turn her on, and let her run, until the mirror steams and it’s not a shock to enter. But she needs to understand the words I say are translated through a filter of jagged teeth; a siphon of gummy gravestones backing up the drain until the suds cake a ring on the porcelain and someone flushes and she curls in the shower curtain as if it could protect her naked body. 54 theMeadow
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