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sitting in this room playing russian roulette -

the tape recorder crackled.
my spine tingled.
my hand shook.

i timidly pressed my index finger
against the rusted trigger.

my bloody eyes squeezed tightly shut.
my tears were tinged with red,
gleaming in the dark.

"sorry."

- finger on the trigger to my dear juliet.

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