Above and in front two birds are darting in and out of a tree. Sometimes they collide to fight or maybe mate, but I can't really make it out in the low light. It's just after dusk, I have nothing to do, I'm watching them, trying to figure it out.
"I'm only attracted to you", he replies. "Like, you only."


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There is a pause. She ashes her cigarette. It falls on me. It seems like the birds have stopped too.

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