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Sweaty

I'm really sweaty. I'm really sorry I read you such a heteronormative poem. I thought it was beautiful and short. I forgot if I was a lesbian. If it is trendy for me to like my same sex I don't want to do it. Some of us argued, on Lagrange, in Polish Village, about whether I wasn't shaving because of ideology or because it was annoying. I said it was annoying, but I meant that the whole thing about it is annoying. Everything is annoying. I'm annoyed and cold but still sweating. Sometimes I feel the same as when I am transplanting fragile cucumbers into the ground with clumsy rubber gloves, very graceless. I feel tenderness toward you and disdain toward myself that I subtly impressed upon you. I am sorry about that. I don't want to do that, to her. I don't want to do that again. I felt good when her and I watched raindrops drop into a pond. Both our natural tendencies were to lie down in the grass, maybe she was thinking about our muddy bodies, but I wasn't thinking much. My thoughts were warm. Today we're going to ride in my ticking time bomb car, fifty-five miles per hour for a couple of hours, forty-four degrees is the high and god damn, we are going to feel that high. Embrace the peaks of the weather and the pits of our lonely, young, emphasis on the young, but still rather manic feelings. I feel better doing that with you, but I don't know if I want to touch you all the time.
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