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either way, you have to have one

D.S. Maolalai

it takes about a year and a half
of working the
same
goddamn job
for you to finally get tired.
it takes about a month
perhaps two months
of seeing the same woman
for you to get sick.

sick of her smells and
her hairs,
the way her armpit creases
and the things she makes you do
to her,
rummaging in mouldy buckets
of bait and buckets of chum,
worse than being at
the carnival,
the circus,
worse than
hearing ambulance sirens
in your head at 3 am.

she stinks like old vegetables
and her voice gets louder -
fingers in your ears and mouth
and you change your shifts to avoid her
which ruins your humour
and your back
and yes, since you ask,
I hate my job
and she recently left me.

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