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This thing

Jason Galt

J was a cool customer
Handsome, but bedeviled at this
thing called love

Was it a thing?
Was it a lunacy?
Was it a good fuck on a Saturday night
or the mutual agreement to put up with each other
for all of eternity?

He had been in love before
but told he was too passionate for the job.
He tried to make love
but she said she only wanted to fuck.
He tried to love her
but she only loved herself, if she loved anything at all.

So J put love away.
He locked it away in the same place
he put his coke habit, his thirst for Scotch
and all the other monstrosities
good men with a hair trigger
fall for.

Love became a transgression.

A line you don’t cross
unless you carry a loaded shotgun
and a crucifix.

Then damned if he didn’t meet another woman.

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