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Anonymous Gentleman

Brian Looney

    Some guy asked me for a ciggy tonight, and I presented my pack like a butler, the opening faced to him and my fingers at rest upon the swinging top-half, an ingratiating smile upon my face.
    I watched her pick a ciggy out (for it was a fresh pack, the first of the bunch), I watched her pick a ciggy out with difficulty, awkward to the max, so that (in order to disarm her), I said I didn’t care how dirty her fingers were, that I often urinated and masturbated without even washing my hands, that it was fine if she had recently rubbed her vag (and cried about it afterhand), that I would console her with a sympathetic ciggy and an amity for frustration, that I would turn my eyes away if it made her nervous, that I would hand a cig to her shaking hands if she needed one so bad, that it would be my pleasure to distribute one gratis, that I was a semen-flecked, urine-flecked cigarette dispensing, gentleman-degenerate of poetry machine.
    She never even thanked me.

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