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Milkteeth

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Published: Jul 25, 2015

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“We’re pregnant!”

How odd.

But you smile nonetheless and make a little sound of surprise. The good stuff because that’s what they want to hear. Not your opinion on how weird their announcement sounded. And the thought of a parasite— fetus— goddamn it, say it right: baby growing inside one of them. One of them is pregnant—not we.

“Six weeks in!”

Jesus, do they want you to do the maths.

Still you smile. All tiny white teeth—

(( around rosy nipple, her gasps mygod ))

And nod, because you’ve learned nodding at people suggests empathy. And that’s all you want to emanate at the moment.

You remember a song from when you were twenty-one and punk rock: St. Jimmy, Green Day

I'm the patron saint of the denial

“We were thinking, since you’re like family to us…”

Are you talking to me?

“Would you want to be the godfather?”

I'll give you something to cry about.