AN EMPHATIC FUCK (or, MARRY ME, MIKE)
Mike is a little upset.
JAMAICA COLOURS ONLY
Went from non-existent to number 2 on my birthday wishlist.
Clever move Havaianas people, fucking clever move.
Standing there, I saw it:
opaque leg extended across the
universal highway,
taunting with its
harvest beams. “Your heroes are d
ead,” it said,
“asphyxiated on the
stilling breath of masculine
toil.”
It once sang rhapsodically.
Streets just busted into her own apartment. WHO GON’ MESS?
When the heat
(not yet stifling)
barely whistles or spits
- a distant steamy comfort -
on those nights, barely there,
your hands, holding wrenches,
your secular fists
call to me in dreams.
We flip and switch;
the house teems;
she flinches, I shift.
The radiator skips.