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Roger Valdez

Roger Valdez

This is where you’ll find my writing that isn’t about cities, housing, or local Seattle politics. It’s where I’ll write about almost everything else.

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Carthage

3 min readNov 20, 2018

No, faithless Man, thy course pursue,
I’m now resolved as well as you.
No Repentance shall reclaim
The Injur’d Dido slighted Flame.
For ’tis enough what e’re you now decree,
That you had once a thought of leaving me.

Looking back on it later he marveled at how few questions he asked. When she considered it, she blamed him. They both agreed that maybe it was meant to be.

When they played pool it was loud. It was mostly playing the game and making fun of each other and making out.

“What do you want to hear,” he asked her as he went toward the juke box.

“Whatever makes you happy, loser,” she said.

He loaded up $5 worth of George Jones, Hank Williams, and Johnny Cash.

As the steel guitar of “You Win Again” started from the speakers he said, “this one is for you.”

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Roger Valdez
Roger Valdez

Written by Roger Valdez

This is where you’ll find my writing that isn’t about cities, housing, or local Seattle politics. It’s where I’ll write about almost everything else.