Letter Three

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Dear Quill,

After three months of working
at your poetry café
and living in your place upstairs,
Page finally gathered the courage to warn me about you.
I should've listened.
I should've headed her words with a better ear than the one I gifted her.

Alas, that's not how these things played out.

I didn't listen because I was too wrapped up in you.
Quill, you had quite the way
with words.
And you knew it too.

You knew exactly what to say to get me to let my guard down.
You knew exactly how to smooth talk me into sharing a bottle of wine.
You knew exactly what to do to get me to play Stella for you.

In the bedroom.
Only ever in the bedroom
could Stella be free.
Only then could Stella wear makeup
and pretty dresses and curl the growing waves of black hair.

You made Stella feel dirty.
You made Stella feel wrong.
You were the one that tried
to hide Stella away in your
weed scented room.
You gave Stella they and them
when deep down,
Stella wanted she and her.
You forced this "them"
label where it did not belong.

And it stuck.
In my evolving mind of confusion,
it stuck.
They.
I never wanted they.
But, it stuck.
It stuck.

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