The Opiate: Summer 2015, Vol. 2

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How Can I Help? - Matt Nelson

How Can I Help? Matt Nelson

Is there anything left to make? Dinner smells good but so does your hair. What would happen if we let it burn, left the apartment with our shoes in hand leaving the hurt of not showing up next to the invitations, the peephole dry as a well. I promise you, once we get to the first beach, the second one will sneak up on you. Everywhere today the sun is the color of the boardwalk. Everyone agrees that if the boardwalk was a color this would be the color of the sun, which you can walk on. And if the throng of Easter shall separate our diversions? There’s no doubt we’ll meet again like two pieces of a wishbone scrapped and buried in the trash.

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