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| Wen’s One |
| by Jared Ward |
| the clerk stands in the aisle
where we used to hide and sneak peeks at pornos. his hands are red and freckled and covered with curly white hair. (i've stumbled past bikers stinking of leather and pabst blue ribbon in the booth by his foot, watched two drunk dykes finger each other at four in the morning while the night clerk got himself off behind the counter. grabbed my ranch flavored corn nuts and i was gone.) is that everything? he asks, setting aside the red handled broom. my king sized twix comes to four cents over the dollar and i've got a twenty and a one in my pocket. i've got it, he says, swiping pennies from the give a little/get a little tray. i nod and shuffle back out to the street. |
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| June 2009 |
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