Modern Dating

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Electric buzz. Solitary note.

Separate pangs of anxiety

Lumps form in the throat


"Whatever," I say

This is how the world works

Sedition will get us nowhere!

But the chaos that we bear—

It churns in our stomachs

'til the day we spit toxic bile


And forsake our lovers

to guard a selfish pride, instead of

the likeness of our mothers.

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