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Loving Conversation

Sometimes
the conversation
kicks and screams
with absurdity:
          "Do you love me?"
"Of course!"
          (Half truths never
kill,
     they only maim a little.)
"Am I beautiful?"
          "Yes, dear."
          (Sometimes all the
pretty things are
          the first signs of
hell)
"We are happy."
          Lover's white
lies are what justifies
our decadent little
dreams.
          The conversation
kicks and screams.

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