Getting High

Kwame Dawes

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Most of of a bearded man's face is visible, reflected in a shard of mirror that he holds in his outstretched hand. With the other hand he's holding a syringe up to his neck, apparently injecting himself with something.

For a moment,
everything seems

brilliant as the sweet
revelation of an orgasm

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