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she says it’s the tone in your voice

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he asks what tone are you referring to what are you hearing

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she says i’m an artist too you don’t have to tell me

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he explains i was simply affirming my vocation in order to elucidate why i perceive another way

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she says you don’t need to pose or differentiate for me you are so fucking self-absorbed

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he answers self-conscious possibly but not self-absorbed i think it is intelligent to question everything to suspect all we see think we know maybe a greater mystery than any of us realize exists beyond all our beliefs

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she says i think it’s time for us to stop talking

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he says why can’t you make it easy why must everything be a fight

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her vagina becomes a deep dark narrowing tunnel he is trapped in thinning air smells like ocean

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her voice detached distant disaffected says fine

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he questions fine? find? line? sign? can you hear me? anyone hear me?

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she purposely ignores his panting gasping shrieking

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later she tells the surgeon who performs the extraction then the police detectives who conduct the investigation she had no idea he was lost in there

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unanimous jury finds her guilty she screams out at courtroom he was a self-absorbed dreamer this is all wrong

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the judge declares mistrial dismisses case based on prosecution’s inability to refute so-called artist’s willingness to enter of his own volition

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late at night she feels his voice whisper circulating through her body haunting her

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