Adjectives
I.
concupiscent
hopeful
desperate
devastated
amorous
impatient
tender
insipid
forever
II.
bristly
evaporated
longing
watchful
isolated
boring
absent
laconic
wrecked
Verbs
I.
wait
brood
wish
weep
fight
II.
forget
dismiss
expunge
dissolve
attempt
Nouns
I.
pose
force
question
guilt
future
heart
guts
II.
denial
punctuation
fear
finish
tree
tears
distance
thanks s sontag
I don’t even need to kiss.
But I do anyway? & I showed late to a
dark lawn with a poet reading from the scrolling light of a smartfone. I was
quiet, in ambience.
eyecontact unwavering. And sitting next to me,
introduced, and lovely because from us the conversation then readily flowed. In the grass with jars
& cups of wine, like oldest friends sharing knowings all together too easy.
Maybe it is easier with a boy. I haven’t met anyone like that who I’d like to
just sit by and keep talking to; the girls I know in some sorts because of how
easy it is for us to just be. But he it was like a lost brother of mine. Then breakfast, sleepless,
and it was a depressing breakfast, in that the breakfast was depressed. Eggs in
a weird isolated pile, a couple of biscuits that didn’t fit anywhere, some sad potatoes. We only go places for
geriatrics. And hopefully will. It is exciting and we can’t be. We are a
secret, a secret shared with bars & the heavens & some select northend
streets. Our bicycle seats & our diaries. He asks me questions. No, he just
listens. We can’t talk anymore about the good that feels, or the beauty of
faces. I can’t think about the feeling of a hand pressed hard against a low-back, or the clench of small arms. Golden beard, Nordic eyes. But our
smiles! the best, contagious. Not for those long
distances and uninvolved. I got through a day of clenching my lust-carved jaws,
of hiding my heartattack chest. And just the saying of the bare-minimal, just
that I like it, I want to be best friends, I want to. I have blood-filled
veins, after all, and a heart that shakes and pounds, and legs which want to
wrap around, and a mouth that kisses with all of itself. I am not there, there,
there. I am older now, smarter. I am not in love, I am in love. I am in love
with every second, sometimes. Since Sunday night. I am in love with time
elapsing, with an everpresent future, with the thoughts that a body feels! The
movement, the passions, the lust embrace that I KNOW isn’t gone, has just been
hibernating, has not been there, at all, real. It might not be he; he I like so
much and feel so connected to, really, like everything is just there and so
honest & obvious.
It’s 28 or never baby.