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Being an other

it’s like honey stuck to the sweetest places around your lips

but can’t taste in public.

 

a river washing away every word unspoken

stirring about new worries.

 

a perfect silence only interrupted

by a tender touch.

 

imaginary sails set high

on simple seas,

 

but a complex

lie

 

underneath

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Written by
matthew-cannizzaro
American
Published
Apr 19, 2011
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11·48
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After Lorrie Moore's "Self Help" -- How to Be an Other Woman.

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