Shann Palmer

Bread n' Butter Pickles   make or break a sandwich she'd say  you got to have beef bologna and American cheese summer tomatoes and salad greens jabbing the knife for emphasis two slices of meat   she always cried if it was right before her period telling anyone who'd listen how she'd never had two slices on a sandwich until she was grown   if she'd had a wine cooler it'd be the tuna fish tale too making lunch for seven people out of one six ounce can and half a jar of relish   he wanted to say just shut up about it you have what you need now but he'd grunt and nod no need to beg trouble   she could always suck him up had a way of sticking her fork in twirling him like spaghetti before he could untangle she'd have him in her mouth   comfortable there familiar warmth between two people who might've have done better.

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