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Drunk Texts with A Writer

Drunk Texts with A Writer

Don’t do that, I said Filling my glass again What, you ask Say thank you Like we’re strangers I drink the wine like water And hope I will…

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Crystal Jackson
Dec 16, 2017
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Don’t do that, I said
Filling my glass again
What, you ask
Say thank you
Like we’re strangers
I drink the wine like water
And hope I will sleep this night
What should I say instead, 
You want to know
I want normal conversations
Without the barbed wire
Conversations that aren’t 
Stilted with regret
Or smothered with longing
Conversatio…

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