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[jadedhate]

 Because with alarming accuracy
she'd been identifying patterns
I was unaware of - this tic, that
tendency, like the way I've mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt -

I knew I was in danger
of being terribly understood.

Connubial by Stephen Dunn

Comments

[fieryhunt]

Oh, Mr. Dunn knows that language so well, so intimately..

[jadedhate]

He's a damn dirty son of a bitch, he is.