poetryrepairs #204 14.09:101 RACHELGRACE ADAMS : The Morning After ERIN C. HASTINGS : Letter to Victoria Lucas VALERIE DEATON : To Kiss the Earth |
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RACHELGRACE ADAMS The Morning AfterWe was drunk last night, dancin', laughin' ta music, an' Millie was all over me. She was warm in my arms this morning an' I hate the sweat of her palms on my face. She'd told me once she had demons an' she warned me, “I don't trust men.” I didn't listen. I didn't want to. We all have demons an' Millie's one of mine. I don't hear the floor squeak when she leaves no more. We loved each other once, but 96th Street drained it out of us. Ma told me men don't cry cause the zip bag veins in our bodies is dry. “Ta a woman's tears you're pale," she said, ”an' any man she hung with beat 'em out of me. I felt the old women's skin waitin' for me ta stumble down the stairs the morning after. It's their way of tellin' me they heard the head bangin' even when my music's playin' too loud. They ain't getting' out of my way; thinkin' maybe I'll fall, break my neck and the halls won't weep. The bums on the corner tryin' ta get a lick from a bottle that's been dry all night. He's gunna beg me for a dollar he knows he ain't gunna get. I hate the damn buzzer on the liquor store's door. The bum knows I'm goin in, getting' mine; and he knows I ain't sharin'. When ya been here this long, ya don't give a shit, cause ya know he's your next step. If Millie comes back, she better bring her own; cause I ain't sharin' even if I did love her once. I'm keepin' mine cause the weepin' halls dry ya out, an' ya get thirsty and no one shares. poetryrepairs #204 14.09:101
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