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The Bugaboo Man’s Love Is True

Kyle Hemmings

    The Bugaboo man reaches out from the city’s darkest corners, snatches me when I’m thinking of magnolias and cracked hearts, when I’m rolling in the cat’s eye of the night. His love doesn’t give me blisters or runny lipstick. He’s too old for a tight pair of chinos. The stars, closer than we think, will not fibrillate tonight. The closed mind of the sun will not be shocked. The Bugaboo man and I ride all the taxis for free. Even the drivers who cannot speak our tongue understand this kind of love that is not multi-reflective glass shard or insidious poison. We listen as we screech through amber lights to the hot-pretzel vendors closing shop and yodeling stratospheric hieroglyphics. In a back room of some spoiled rich boy’s party, one whose piano fingers are constantly broken in thirds and his loose lips always out of tune, the Bugaboo man reads my palm for free. He says your life line is very short. I say Tell me something that will not go down easy. But I don’t mean it. I tell him Live to forget your grandmother’s hysteria before they invented Freud and the Cartesian dip. I tell him that by day, we are blanched and hard and whiny. I tell him Don’t forget to tip your top hat. He says he loves us when we’re at our dizziest. I say Would you like more popcorn and dog biscuits that get passed off as honey buns? By blasphemous rip-ribbon sunrise, we are both drip and dry.



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