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A Woman's Guide to the Baggage Car

By agora

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A Woman’s Guide to the Baggage Car Men do this. It is not right but men do this. They craft an angelic You white impossibly woman-white discarnate mother of all mothering an impossible You. They craft a demonic You red impossibly woman-red a magnet of carnality unfaithful impossibly untrue. In between unseen, the You like all of us, tentative a bag of flesh a bag of holiness looking forever for a green safe anchorage Looking for the lover, one whose eyes see only green. Written November 14th, 2001 © on Nov 14 2001 05:34 AM PST   0 • 10

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