ZIA

HIT ME SAID ZIA SHE IS PROPPED BETWEEN THE BED AND THE WALL AND THE FLOOR. TEDDY TAKE HER PULSE TO PUNCTUATE HIS MONOLOGUE EVERY TIME SOMEONE ASKS FOR A LITTLE TASTE MORE. COME THE MORNING COME TOO SOON THEY WILL SEARCH THE COW PASTURE NOTHING WILL BRUISE BLUE SAVE THE SOFT ALABASTER SKIN INSIDE ZIA’S LIMBS.

ZIA MARRIED IN HER TEENS DROVE TO VEGAS PREGNANT IN A WHITE WEDDING DRESS IN A RED PICKUP TRUCK WITH A CASE OF CHAMPAGNE AND HE WAS SO RICH SO OF COURSE IT WAS THE BEST TO BE HAD. COME THE BOREDOM COME TOO SOON SHE TOOK A DIVE FROM THE EASY LIFE. TOOK HER SON STOLE SOME SILVER SPOONS SHE ALWAYS SAID HE WAS TOO NICE TOO NICE.

FIRST THING SHE NOTICED ABOUT THAT IRISH BLOODED GUY WAS HIS LONG BLOND HAIR HIS CRAMPS BUMPER STICKER. ON THEIR FIRST DATE THEY HAD THEIR FIRST FIGHT AND GREAT SEX SO OF COURSE THEY WERE TOGETHER FOR YEARS. THEY WERE JEALOUS FROM THE START HELD COMPLETE CONTROL OVER EACHOTHERS HEARTS. THEY WERE ALWAYS PRETTY ALWAYS POOR AND THAT’S ALL I KNOW ABOUT THAT PART.

ZIA STARTED DRIVING A TAXI CAB STARTED SERIOUSLY PLAYING AT BEING BAD STARTED FALLING FOR THE FALLING THAT PRETTY PRETTY TOUGH GIRL FALLING WAY OF WALKING. ZIA STARTED SEEING AN OLDER MAN SAID I WANT TO BE YOUNG AND JADED FOR AS LONG AS I CAN AND THE DELICACY IT FADED FROM HER FACE AND HER HANDS HER PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY CRACKING HANDS.

SO TREAT IT AND CHEAT AND NEVER QUITE HIT THE CONCRETE HARD ENOUGH AND BLUFF AND NEVER QUITE GET TO THE MEAT OF THE STUFF. SHE WAKES UP WEEPING STRANGE TO NOT BE BRUISED AND BEATEN. AND APOLOGIZE AND BOAST SHE SAYS SHE LOVES THAT LAST ONE MOST JUST BECAUSE HE DID HER WORST JUST BECAUSE HE TOOK HER LOWEST. TOOK HER TO THE SPANISH COAST COUNT UP THE TIMES THEY OVERDOSED SHE SAID I WAS RIGHT I ALWAYS SAID HE WAS TOO PRETTY HE WAS TOO PRETTY.

Summer 94 Kerville, TX (G)
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