VOICES IN MY HEAD

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my future, the landlord today can be the tenant tomorrow, the tenant today can be the landlord tomorrow, the priest today can be the drunkar

and stopped before I managed to flip open my eyes expecting to see my princess by my side, for our daily routine, my fingers would brush her hair, give her a few tickles

to scream at the instrumentalist for pushing me down from cloud nine, but I walked back in, grabbed the purse on the floor, picked up a few quarters and a dollar, to get some M&M’s on my way back from the war of words. I rolled my walker as

uiet and was amazed by how my stiff jawline transformed into a smiling Emoji by a glance, she had ligh

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d there, must have forgotten my manners or something, but I was completely bl

wide open. But anyway, I’m

lady I l

thought of my surroundings when I

awake; wi

t any sleep?

most important meal of the day, that’

n in the presence of greatness, I lost m

s 6 bedroom triplex and Porsche had no influence on her feelings towards me. She was patient no matter what stones were thrown, occasionally she shielded me from them, but of course at times she threw a few of her own. She knitted up the holes in my socks, my decade of non-stop seizures did not chase her away, instead it broug

tupid things to say, so I got closer, stretched ou

n as wood, it wouldn’t be surprising if wings came along

teasing, “Paradise huh? y

rapped a chain around my neck, I was never the shy type, but running to the bathroom wouldn’

woke one

d, you know the ones where the guy holds a stick in his hands

t musical therapy, it brings a

al for some musical healing

e answered, “No.” Her patience was b

und of musical instruments, money and getting wasted at t

awkward moment. “Come on. I’ve got two dollars and two quarters. Walk me to the

ke up for disrupting me by taking me to get som

you a snack. I roamed into your room, what is it? Four A.M , must

, looking at the clock. “It’s 4:33A.M. A creep walks into my room, s

offer; I’m not g

and said something

that as a c

peak S

hat she called me but I su

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sitting on the bed, my feet refused to walk, my heart beat i

She placed the m

aning on the walker, waiting, blowing air out of my mouth; so I could smell my breat

of the room. I

Are you sure you should be walking

need it more than I do. Don’t worry I just roll

responded, “And today you

owed to be foo

won

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at, Well, a fool make

kes; I have control

day I’m gonna let them carry me into a

don’t make mistakes makes is making the claim itself. So, erm…. let’s play a gam

talk

ing to loo

talk

he suggested, “Flip a coi

, what are we

dge you since I met you, there’s just so much to judge, but I’ll p

er a quarter and

ded on the floor and we were

lieve someone owe

good to you, so I have n

rick or the big embarrassing

hissed and sai

sked, “All right, tell

ted stat

ence, now who WAS embarrassing themselves?

lk about me, w

wondered why they spell it that way. They coul

nded people here. Almost everywhere I look there’s

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are you so

e 10 minutes, why do

dge all men, I

need to see

za grande, cerebro pequen

t chain was about to be broken, I liked her until sh

’re safely residing in; I live in Lawrenceville ab

ere they able to

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across before, she didn’t budge, didn’t like any of my jokes, nobody could read my emotions like Erica, nobody could put a smile on my face like she did, my face was like paper and her love a pencil and cr

’t as tough as she expected, so I asked, “You okay?” She started coughing and I repe

gasped. “Really,

u back if you

y me, and don’t hol

so M&M’S or Snickers pick one, you’ll h

in the towel. “You have three minutes and don’t wal

it easy, use my walker and slowly

and left thigh ., looking down to the ground before realizing I’d lost the game, she didn’t return the coin I gave her to flip. Heads or tails, I had lost. My first mistake was fantasizing about her, agreeing to play the game, the second was letting her defeat me by handing ov