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"How Do I Love Thee?"

by mike-essig

Call out for Love. Call out for Love. Call out for Love. Repeat until it becomes a chant, an incantation, a summoning, a charm. Expect no answer. Love is a tattered, weary whore standing on an unlucky corner. Her feet hurt and she wants to go home alone. She is disenchanted of desire; dog-tired of endlessly being needed. Love does not listen. Love does not hear. Love does not respond. Love owes you nothing and pays her debt in full.
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