He gave her a violet.
She gave him an orange.
He have her a turquoise on top of a ring.
They feasted on greens topped with chestnuts and peaches—
The colours ran out then—and so did their fling.
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Gratuitous
this is actually kind of sad :(
ReplyDeleteI know... I thought about re-writing it to make it happier, but that line wrote itself and I couldn't seem to get rid of it.
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