notes from exile: the yearly checkup

[swampwater]

the night before i left town for good, i drove bobby ray to the grocery store. while following him and his buggy around, i suddenly felt her behind me. before i could stop myself, i turned around, and saw them, still together after all this time, his eyes burning into the back of my head. i ducked into the aisle with cheeks burning and then walked

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[nonspecific]

At least you can order a sweet $5 tshirt?

[jdn]

i disappeared once.

[cheeze]

they broke up, for the record.

one day i'd like the things i gave back to you for fixing.

i'm sure you don't miss me, but i miss you sometimes. i hope you're doing okay.

also, somewhere in your possession might be a cd of one of the last jesusonvinyl recordings. i left it at your house on winter street once upon a time. if you find it, i'd love to have it or a copy of it. i think it might have a drawing of a hand on it.

[swampwater]

i'm well aware, thanks, people seemed to take particular delight in informing me of breakups and quickie marriages. look at him squirm. also, hi. this is a surprise. who said i didn't miss you? i think about you a lot. i was just informed not to communicate with you and thus have done so. i tried to give you all of that stuff back multiple times, and warn you i couldn't keep it around forever... i still have some but i had to get rid of a lot. sorry. moving into your car gives you a lot of hard decisions to make. and carrying around a lot of shitty artwork that i couldn't give away started seeming pretty stupid. that cd was trashed when you left it there, flaking and unplayable. i'm not sure if i still have it, but i do have the recordings saved. not really sure what you expected here but i'm sure you're disappointed. sorry.

[cheeze]

squirming wasn't the goal. sorry about that, didn't know if you knew