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Squinting

 Squinting


While I clip my nails 

and trim my nose hairs 

I think of those

former friends from war zones 


how uncomfortable they were 

we couldn’t have a civil conversation 

without an attack 

on my girlfriend’s perfume 


it was too easy to kill the vibe 

polite society requires 

everything said a provocation 

circling back to unspoken traumas 


the effort to squint and enjoy the

 band of happiness we were attempting 

demanded too large of a leap of faith 

from persons whose faith was shattered 

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