THE TASTE OF SALT 

“Obsessions are the
only things that matter”
—Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt
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She sat there—
by the pool pretending
she was somebody else

Thumbing through the—
Times-Picayune totally
bored with herself
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“Are you Frankenstein—
material?” the tacky
ad said on the page

She turned the page
quickly, it was much
to close to the truth