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Dangerous Strangers

Kyle Hemmings

    You can love me three flights up from where the cats howl from garbage bins. Or you can love me tomorrow without an under-city trace. I can slip away as fast as your money. You’d never know that I was once a princess and Massachusetts was an island of women who invented their pasts. By winter, they became manic-depressive and they itched for dangerous woodsmen from the north, who could start cold fires. My ancestors spoke in perfect conditional tense until love became a pickpocket’s game. My pockets have been empty for some time. When you go home, you’ll try to wash off my girl-downy scents—the litchi, the magnolia, the freesia. You won’t whisper in your wife’s ear that you just tasted the cunt of a princess and you swear it was honeysuckle mixed with your apricot brandy breath. You’ll begin to doubt that you were ever real about anything. Instead, you’ll tell your wife to move over. The bed will become a pond of hard, stagnated water. Geese will fly from that bed. They will sense by instinct an open window.

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