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monkey buy monkey sell

 
an after-eight slides over my nose
while the cider settles into
stomach pit bellyache
warming my knotted innards


contentment my enemy
sidle up beside me
say nothing while not getting a round in
do not think that the heat
is boiling you like a frog
(it is
do not say it)


though i smell like sweat
and tester perfumes
i believe in the ache of my feet
i am good

i am grand

flexing atrophied tongue muscles
pinning an 80-watt smile on my cheeks
and a badge on my chest

it  seems so real
for one moment

and another

until one power pose,
team shout,
throwaway compliment later
i buy it all



Written by anna_grin (ANNAN)
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