Let’s Play Barbie

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“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.” – Allen Ginsberg

I look down and see a smiling cut, layered like an onion; a red streak. I don’t know how it got there, but it stings. Dunkin’ doesn’t have any lids, so I carefully balance the coffee in my hands, making sure I don’t soil the books at the store with whipped cream and sugar. I use Saunders and Wallace like a yo-yo – up-down, up-down.