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It's the Thought that Counts

 

“Hey, who was the guy with the goatee that was leaving as I came in?”
“Oh, that was the Devil.”
“Right! But seriously …”
“No, seriously. That was the Devil.
Your birthday’s coming up,
and I decided to help you
make your dreams come true.”
“What dreams?
And what does the Devil have to do with it?”
“Don’t you remember last night,
when you were telling me
who you’d sell your soul to sleep with?”
“But I was drunk!”
“Yeah, so was I. What’s your point?”
“I didn’t mean what I was saying!
Besides, Brad Pitt isn’t gay!”
“He is now.”
“Well I’ll be damned.”

 


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It's the Thought that Counts, by Paul Cales, © December 2003