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Antler Handle Magnifying Glass Late 1800’s, Good Condition

by Emily Hunt

My memory has changed everything about you. It thinks you’re perfect. I buckle under the druggy weight of the lie, sometimes. Press awkwardly against the ground, happy and stupid beneath it. It thinks that when you first walked into my shop—collapsing your umbrella between us in slow revelation, careful amongst the worthless antiques—it was love at first sight and not, in fact, aversion. My memory forgets that. Forgets that I tried to resist, first. So unlikely, your gunshot taking of my world. Your bedraggled red dress with the little flowers; it dwells on that, my memory. Perpetually recreates the still, in which you’re soaked and sultry and—the tell-tale forgery—shy.

Under the magnifying glass, you were not many of the things I wanted you to be. Your actions not innocent. Your movements not quaint. I spend time with the truth of you […]

October 13th, 2022|
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