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The day before I had stood dumbfounded. Shot with emotion. My fingers intuitively rose to my chest expecting that familiar thick, oozing moisture to be spewing, choking from me. I lived in a freeze frame for minutes. To all else passing the anachronistically frozen figure in aisle ten among the discordant clangs of activity I must have seemed inexplicably overwhelmed by the choice between two different but very similar fabric softeners. ...it's strange what desire will make foolish people do... I can't take the agitation at night. The pavements find my footsteps and there will be something of you in a stray cat. The tail licking around a railing. Eyes piercing while the body dissolves into darkness. I try to disappear but I am always, always with me. An alleyway between two buildings. Darkness splashed up its walls. Like the tide marks of a black flood. A key of recognition activates in me by some scent on the breeze or familiarity in the atmosphere and the song I