betsy
raze
she
once
met
a
welsh
woman
in
a
bar
downtown
,
ditch
-mouthed
and
drunker
than
her
.
a
short
shock
of
blonde
hair
made
a
wreath
around
her
head
.
her
name
now
gone
, relegated
to
some
dark
corner
in
the
attic
of
her
mind
. "
the
world
is
such
a
stupid
fucking
name
for
what
we
live
in
,"
the
welsh
woman
said
. "
we
can
do
better
than
that
.
it
should
have
a
person's
name
.
we
should
treat
the
world
like
a
child
.
call
it
betsy.
what
do
you
think
?"
she
said
she
thought
she
was
looking
at
the
most
beautiful
girl
in
all
of
betsy.
and
though
their
lips
never
touched
,
she
could
have
sworn
they
kissed
just
long
enough
to
forget
themselves
for
one
heated
moment
.
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who
go
blather
from