Shake the demon lover in the effulgent post-Chelyabinsk world, where death breathes you back into yourself and backwards you walk through those coupled images, so posed, charged with feigned desire, the lighting just right, the angle meticulous, smushing foreheads with golden rings on your fingers. You had a dog. You had a crockpot. A kid was on the way. Shake the demon lover, rip yourself from her arts district loft, where the music is in French and always beautiful, glide down the rusted rails, cruise past the headshops, the pawnshops, say the word Tuesday and wonder if it means anything other than the third day of the week. You shared a bed. You shared a bed. You shared a bed. Shake the demon lover and her words track you, her text reads, "Come over, friend." And she calls you friend, she shouts you friend, she pants you friend, as you end the affair for the sixth, seventh, eighth time, one last couch **** and never speak to me again.