Lovelorn Poet in Savannah, GA: Muffled Applause

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Fuck you! she said.
I wish you were dead! she said.
Yeah? Well, fuck you! You fucking
bitch! he said, slamming the door
on his way out.
The apartment building took a
deep breath. George (from Seinfeld)
mumbled something to muffled applause.
Tito Puente rattled the windows of
a passing car. A dog yap-yapped.
The streetlight outside my window
came on. The phone rang.
I let it ring. All of us complicit
in the argument.

-Bison Jack

Her Two Cents

The streetlight
The apartment building
the door
the windows
The phone

deep breath
she said
let it ring

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