we crashed into seas

of opened water bottles

& cigarette filters smudged

with old-lady-red lipstick.

- -

we danced into nights

of loneliness and lies

where warm bodies

are hard to come by.

- -

we swam in

empty bottles of vodka, rum

& whiskey, only to drown

our sorrowful selves.

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we kissed & tectonic plates

shifted beneath our feet

to create the necessary distance

of five decades or so.