How come seeing someone I know has become how did the thing go and did your son and how about your daughter and the medicine and the pills and the therapy and the article induced epiphany and the holiday plans and the holiday pictures and the disappointment but terrific views and how about the parents and how about the dead parents and did you see the news and on substack someone said this too shall pass and I’ll send you this link to a podcast it’s all hormones you know it’s all capitalism it’s all some planet in retrograde.
What happened to broken bike chains and unreasonable visits through the snow and loving you in the rain in front of your door after you graduated and I wanted to be your lesbian Andie MacDowell and moving furniture accidental pivot poetry and got it question mark I got it or on three or
when me and him
made our own little sutra
on my living room floor
after I charaded Good Will Hunting with the apples and the note on the other side of my balcony door and it’s not hard to get but felt elated he did
and when I stretched out under the table and said
Jack
I’ll never let go
he crawled to me all swim-shouldered lanky tall French American screwed for life even when I told him I didn’t take a shower and went down on me
in the ocean and the ship breaking into two and all and I didn’t care who’s
the raft, who’s
the water.
