12gauge.com 2002

LETTER TO DUBLIN
Melanie Bogue

My friends are all fine and marginally
irritating; typical girl jealousy that drives me
mad; at least I have Carrie (when she detaches
from Josh); we are now an established gang
in Baton Rouge; people reference us
and in their sentences are words like tough,
vagrants, pack; makes me proud; feels good
to do something for the community.
Promise me you won't let a woman
walk all over you; unless of course
it is Halloween and you are a Persian rug
and she is a pair of glass slippers; but then
remember, if she feeds you grapes
you'll have to eat them off the floor.

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