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Half Remembered

He had a hole in his jeans.

 

I remember, fidgeting with it nervously the whole evening.

Hole, whole.

I can’t even remember his name.

(Now you know that’s a lie. His name escapes you no more than you escape yourself.)

 

Driving somewhere, someone’s house. Board games that make no sense.

 

Kisses you can’t escape. And then we slept, I on the couch and he on a camp bed.

 

Lost my socks, sometime in the night, lustful and half asleep. Don’t remember what we did, though he swears we didn't. I don’t know, I was asleep.

 

He drove me home the next day, and I fidgeted with the hole in his jeans.

(They weren’t jeans they were some sort of corduroy.)

 

Never did find my socks.

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Mar 17, 2010
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