jokes aside by: shelby latterman
a funny but serious essay, once per month. something to read on the elliptical.
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first date (opens the original)
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Green had arrived by the time he left the bathroom. He saw a vague shape from across a string of tables and tilted his head, as if adjusting the aperture might confirm it was her before heading down the runway of an awkward approach. He scanned the length of her neck, the wideness of her shoulders, and decided that no one else matched the architectural criteria.He wiped his hands on his jeans—why? He hadn’t washed them—and walked toward the foot of the table where she sat. Her chin tilted downwa
returning to the art (opens the original)
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We have to return to the art.My friend Tessa said as she lay, face flat, adorned in a three-piece Fleur du Mal lingerie set with the tags still on while I temporary-tattooed an appliqué of her instagram QR code just above her ass. We need to watch movies, see plays, refill the artistic well. Totally, I said, peeling back the damp paper towel to reveal the sparkly decal atop her tailbone. I looked down at my work:Though, in this moment, I wonder if first we need god. She uploaded the picture to i
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