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Cham"pain"

I woke up next to an ash tray, and an empty bottle of cheap champagne.

 

I can't help thinking I've been here before.

 

Not in this exact motel, just in this moment.

 

I know this stale smell, I remember the same bright sun at 9:30 in the morning.

 

I recall this hole being in the same spot.

 

It was where it had always been.

 

In my head.

 

I try to fill it with your sweet talk and the touch of your wandering hands, and for a while it works.

 

Until I wake up the next morning alone again, sleeping with nothing but wrinkles in the sheets.

 

I can never remember your face in the morning.

 

You might as well have been the ash tray and cheap champagne.

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anna-lynn
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Mar 17, 2013
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