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A Letter I Found On a Bus Stop Bench

Adam Graupe

Dear Jane,
The prison warden handed me your note
I felt sick not hearing from you
for twelve months and then you have
the nerve to send me that letter demanding
I apologize to Henry because he got shot.

Let me tell you, that was your fault
not mine.
If you hadn’t left me for two days
I never would have met Wisteria online
and she and I never would have had
an affair and those gas stations never
would have been held up and
those clerks would have lived.

Let me tell you, that detective with the greasy face
hunted me down and showed me the videos
you and your cousin Henry took having rough sex
in our bed and filmed with my video camera.
That made me furious
So it’s your fault Henry got shot,
not mine.

Anyway, don’t write me again
I don’t care what you do with the apartment
But when I get out I am coming back for my cat.

Don’t try to deny this,
Ned.

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