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******

We aren't keepers anymore.

They've stopped taking us home to meet their mothers.

They mask our names with cute little lies in their cell phones.

They take us out, but only after dark,

when we disappear into the walls

and camouflage into the bar stools.

With every drink, our eyes dance darker,

our lashes grow longer,

our lips flush redder,

our hair flies wilder,

our hips swing looser,

our nails dig deeper.

We leave the Madonnas alone in their wicker beds,

fading smaller into the back of their minds,

as we slowly take over.

With our foreheads kissing theirs

and their lips brushing ours,

for the night, the Madonnas are the ones that meant nothing to me, baby.

For the night, they're ours forever.

For the night, they will never let us go.

We almost forget that in the morning,

we aren't keepers anymore.

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kelly-kamuso
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May 9, 2013
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