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"WANT TO BE IN A MOVIE?" Ace Boggess Huntington, WV |
"WANT TO BE IN A MOVIE?" question from the subject line of a mass email Let me be the scorned lover cloaked by fedora & New York Times on a park bench opposite the French cafe. Close-up: sullen eyes raccoon-black with sleeplessness. Pull away. I sit pretending to read an article on infidelity. Flashback: tender hours. No, raging hours mad with self-indulgence, lust & cigarettes. Autumn scene: see us break our vows atop a crackling leaf- bed (I bite blood from her bottom lip, she knifes stripes across my back). Cut to when she told me "love": I grinned, bent to breathe warm circles near a willing nipple as though with brush-stokes edging paint around an outlet. Present (tense): across the street, she emerges next to HIM-- a stockbroker with slicked-back hair, gray suit & ash-box tie. Zoom in on lipstick-glossy hot-pink blouse unbuttoned at the top, straight champagne hair not tussled, meaning the sex is still to come. Pan toward me, rising unhurried & wandering ghostlike through a dream. Slow fade as I walk out of the script not to return. Ace Boggess [Return to Psychopoetica home page] ©The contents of this page are copyright protected.
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