she texted  Ugh.

he texted back  Work ugh or Ugh ugh

she texted  Both ughs.

her periods amused him she rarely bothered with punctuation while texting  it was informal not expository(she laughed whenever he said expositoryWho says expositoryI doYou doAnd they laughed together)

he texted  .

she texted  .  You get me baby

they were rarely in want of subtlety

someone awkward could supposesuppose an idiot intimacy provided subtlety to couples and partners-in-crime  lovers had nuance down patheld by the throat  they amused and tickled themselves with copious inside-jokes that would seem inane to an outsider  not to be wasted on commoners  jokes that spiced-up what otherwise would be mundane interactions

he got her

she got him

and when he texted her that at that very moment he was standing on their front porch protected from the rain and imagined blue-sailed translucent jellyfish falling with itTho not really  parachuting down in-between the raindrops to the ground and landing on their tentacles they ran away helter-skelter like tall stiff-legged spiders

she texted  Oh please try and catch one for me

he dashed off the porch into the rain to do exactly that

Sorry love he texted  Theyre faster than I thought

Thank you for trying  They must have been  Youre no lummox

the last time he was a lummox was when she asked him for his telephone number and he obliged and as he walked off smiling she asked him if hed like hers

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