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Freakbeat #4

Kyle Hemmings

    I met her at a club in Bristol at the time I was changing from saxophone to guitar and fuzz box. She became my groupie who gave great feedback. At the rim of every morning, the harmonies of our voices swept the room of memory-debris. It got to a point where she was always near me by an octave. When we fell out of sync, she called me a “cold monster.”
    One night, after a gig performing some frat-stomp with The Brothers Solo, she demanded that I come to her basement flat, the one she always joked about hearing “the buried industrial fog of the river.” She demanded that I sleep with her with my matching suit and white pants, the jacket stitched with the trademark Brothers logo—Lonely Boy.
    Then she would take a pair of shears and cut each article of clothing in bed. She said that if I didn’t comply, she’d bleed everywhere, over narrow cobblestone streets, onto dirty windows, bleed under the sheets. She said I must promise not to sleep with anyone else.
    She then spoke about the man who once used her like a snare, a drumbeat He had thick hands and was always meticulously dressed. She refused to say anything more. I’ll miss her deep girly-giggle.
    In the morning, I woke up bald and alone. It rained clearly for a week.

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