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25 Maxianne Berger Bad News Paradelle Coffee spilled all over the morning. Coffee, spilled all over. The morning soaked the embers of yesterday’s smile. Soaked the embers. Of yesterday’s smile, embers spilled yesterday’s morning over all the coffee, the soaked smile. Lips thickened. Murmurs of tarlips , thickened murmurs of tar. Cream curdled. In mid-pour cream curdled; in mid-pour murmurs pour in tar, curdled mid-thickened cream of lips. Floats like sulphur scum on silence. Floats like sulphur. Scum on silence gelid words inside. My mouth gelid words. Inside my mouth, silence floats gelid. Inside words like my sulphur mouth. On scum. In the gelid cream of silence, morning floats over embers like lips spilled on sulphur coffee, over scum. All yesterday my mouth thickened words. Inside the mid-smile, curdled tar’s soaked of murmurs. ...

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