Two Cops Showed Up the Morning After He Ran Off

that smelled like Aqua Net and burned toast. She held my hair back the night I drank too much peach schnapps. I drove her to urgent care when she cut her palm opening a can of tomatoes. I stood next to her in a mauve bridesmaid dress the size of a bedsheet.

And for the last year, if I was honest, she’d been around my house too much.

Dropping by.

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