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wipe her face"It's
@@@@@She made no effort to
wipe her face"It's different and you know itI
couldn't break you in two if I got into a rage
"I'd have a hell of a job breaking you in two with
only one amp," I said, doing crunches faster
"You stuck me with a knife As if that were the
pointIt wasn't, and we both knew it
"A plastic rudder knife is what it was, I was half
out of my mind, and it'll be your last words on
your fucking beth-dead, 'Eddie staffed me with a
plastic fife, goodbye cruel world'"
"You choked me," she said in a voice I could
barely hear
I stopped doing crunches and gaped at herThe
clock-shop started up in my head; bang-a-gong, get
it on"What are you saying, I choked you? I never
choked you!"
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"I know you don't remember, but you didAnd
you're not the sameSave the New Age bullshit for the" I knew the word and I
could see the man it stood for, but it wouldn't
come"For that bald fuck you see in his office
"My therapist," she said, and of course that made
me angrier: she had the word and I didn'tBecause
her brain hadn't been shaken like Jell-O
"You want a divorce, you can have a divorceThrow
it all away, why not? Only go do the alligator
somewhere else
She went up the stairs and closed the door without
looking backAnd it wasn't until she was gone
that I realized I'd meant to say crocodile tears
Go cry your crocodile tears somewhere elseClose enough for rock and rollThat's
what Wireman s |