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Play bid whist with the neighbors, raise holy hell when they table talk and renege. You teach parables of betrayal in the tentative pauses between worried notes. Line desk drawers with final notice bills. I put out a bottle of bourbon to tempt you. On bad, you’re useless as a broken stereo. On good days, you’re a solved riddle of personal adversity. Found you singing confessions in police stations and mumbling about metaphor. When your harmonic progressions migrated north wearing stilettos and red dresses to Sunday service, your shuffle cajoled blessings from long-forgotten prayers.

Craved brown liquor and loose narratives of regret. Kissed substitute women until my tongue ached with want. When you left me, I scoured the thesaurus seeking a suitable synonym for melancholy. My head is filled with shout-outs from an unfinished album.

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