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Buzzing in Limbo

Preston R. P.



    That house had been my home for three years. The kitchen was grounded with chipped tile, piss colored grout and wine stains on the marble counter. I got it as a gift from my brother--the one who spent his days sprawled on a yellow mattress, soaked in his own filth, while trying to ignite cigarets with a broken lightbulb. These days he's fucking around in Arizona, probably doing the same thing.

    The popcorn ceiling snowed paint chips that fell in your drink anytime you walked under a wrong spot, or the rusted ceiling fan went over the 3rd speed.

    The outdated wall paper, the hissing toilet, the generic shower curtain that draped over a tub where the drain accumulated a ring of grime--
    I walked into the living room and unveiled the heavy drapes where the sun radiated in the battlefield of orange peels, punctuated by beer cans and broken mirrors.

    Cockroaches made their home inside of used condoms, nesting in ejaculate.

    The TV was still cascading with static from the nights

    I

    Just sat

    and

    watched it.

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