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the night we met again you sat on a blood-stained patio spitting fiery half sentence sobs until you couldn't breathe. the marina moon lit the gleaming sea. the next day jellyfish filled the murky water, swimming suspended next to old soda cups and submerged plastic bags. you ran free to the sunlight and stuck your dirty toes in the sand, let the white light bleach away your scars. i wandered up and down the alphabetically-named streets with names like driftwood and spinnaker and topsail. i found you curled up on a wrinkled towel, blond hair splayed in all directions. i dropped my keys, touched your motionless shoulder, waited for you to wake up.