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Out of Love

Christopher Hivner

The voice is muted in her head,
she’s turned the volume off.
She watches the veins throb,
middle of his forehead,
spittle flies from
fleshy, feminine lips
and hits her on the neck
like a wet kiss,
the kind her boyfriend
gives her
while slamming her
from behind.
Her father’s finger
wags closer and closer
to her nose
and her face tightens,
waiting for the
inevitable smack.
She drifts off
dreaming of doing something nice
for her man.
A vision forms
and she smiles just enough.
That earns her
an open handed crack
across her jaw.
“What are you smilin’ at?”
The remote’s been broken,
the volume is back up.
Father’s corpulent frame stands erect,
his hands fidgeting around his pants,
she thought for a moment
the belt was coming off,
that could mean any number
of very bad things,
but instead he goes quiet.
“No 15-year-old is going to fool me,”
and then he’s gone,
getting soft in his dotage
she guesses.
She’s not even bleeding.
It’s time to go,
boyfriend is waiting.
He’ll make it all better.
When he hits her
it’s out of love.

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