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(author's note: fiction.)

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I can hear her say the words:

Muttered 

From the dark, secluded corner

Tucked into the back of my head.

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“You’re an a*****e,” she says,

“You played with my emotions.”

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And I swallow, gulp, 

Because I wouldn’t be hearing the words

If I didn’t think they were true.

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“You did, too,” I answer.

“You led me on …”

“Same as I did you.”

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And her eyes darken, because just like me

She knows it to be the truth. 

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And we hate each other,

For a moment -  

Resentments directed into a mirror -

Over the deep-seated and ugly 

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Irony 

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Of mutually conflating love 

With mutually beneficial misuse.

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