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Nick Egan

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Happiness is a Warm Drug

Nick Egan

Submitted to Contest #28

She doesn't love you.So do a line. She does love you.So do a line. Because you can never be together.The eightball of cocaine I have in my pocket makes my head a little clearer as I walk home and prepare myself for the inevitable. When I walk through my front door- our front door- she's going to be in bed with someone else.I shouldn't be this calm.That's the weird thing about love. Your brain rationalizes the craziest things, even if it shouldn't.Even if you shouldn't love at all.That's how I felt about the drugs.And that's how I felt about ...

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