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Logic and Reasoning

Turning all of the lights off and pretending like there's nothing due.

Conditionals, conjuncts, and disjuncts to name a few.

 

The condition is that my naked body has been revealed to you,

uncomfortably in the light

and confidently in the dark.

 

The conjunct is musky, old-timey undertones

of Sam Beam's voice.

Dr. Pepper, eventually, convinced me to be reckless

and rot my teeth, and give myself a stomach ache

for the sake of making out upstairs,

in a chair,

next to home-ade sound absorbers, made of fiber glass.

 

The disjunct:

deciding between two and a half hours of utter hell,

driving a broken down dust buster van in the middle of

hell's ******* half acre, chugging up frosty hills and into a town,

a foreign town,

to be greeted with, "Hel-low,"

Versus, not having to do that.

 

The biconditional is that I will be with you if and only if I can be with myself first.

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