(from my collection 'Scotch and Scars')
'truth serum'
i will not diffuse the truth
dropping cubes into my scotch
dirtying the amber of my reality
muddling the legitimacy between us
we could never coexist;
you, cranberry splashes
me, neat dollops of the way it is.
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