By cj king
Submitted by hairdiva
Date: 2007 Feb 01
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Stage Two Anger

When are you going to lose those pesky love handles? he wrote.  Hitting closer to my jugular than anybody would be comfortable with. With a master's degree in something sitting on a shelf somewhere, he feigned innocence of the affliction at which he wickedly hit below the belt.   Feigning innocence.  Said he didn't know.  It doesn't take a scholar to figure certain things out if you listen close enough.  There is a beautiful sun that comes up each morning that I see from the treadmill, from the elliptical machine.  He knew because I waxed poetic about it. Feign innocence.  But don't think I don't have my master's in peoples' intentions.  I do.  I see right through you.  

And of hitting below the belt, you know yourself what I could say that would tear your jugular clean out.  You try to make up for it in other ways.  They didn't really work.  Do you want a demo, a Meg Ryan-replay of the faking I did just for you? But I am not built to hit people where they live.  It undoes me more than it undoes them.  

So I won't try to tear out your jugular as you so gleefully tried to hit on mine.   I'm too busy trying to hide the scars where I tried to tear out my own on your behalf.  

Pesky love handles I can lose.  What are you gonna do?  I would suggest keeping your eyes open for the Meg Ryanesque love scenes.  It's the best your're gonna do.