PT 3
I walk to the coffee shop with a plot to find her Prius
She left it parked around here last night at my insistence
I dropped her off around the corner from the sex shop, where she lives
Latex came up
we blushed, discussed...
it is easy to remember the direction she came from yesterday
I spent all afternoon and morning anticipating the first glimpse of her on the sidewalk before she saw me
Right on time, late and giddy, in a coat of flowers
Hi
Hello
I don’t remember the color of her car,
only that it is a Prius
And then I see it
A dirty white one practically T-boning the sidewalk
Creating corners out of a perfectly good road
I peer into the tinted windows to confirm
Yes, it is just as messy as my own
I draw a heart onto the 101 freeway soot that is
set on her parked window
A heart generic enough to have been anyone
So I plot returning to add something, maybe an arrow
Perhaps even my own name
A landmine for her beau to step on so I can step up and stake claim on her 8 letter name in pseudonymous rage
To the Victor , go the spoils as my Texas grandpa used to say
i-a
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My father tells me to hit the gym
What he doesn’t tell me is that I need to ready myself for good pussy again
“Nobody wants this cerebral abyss of lava-like moodiness,
these inelegant explosions of suppressed vitality,”
Says the paid-for father figure behind my deadlifting dad
Not working out is shattering our common point of honor but I have always been much more like my father’s father and he knows
I live to smoke another day
To let the red flags in her blue eyes blend into a wholesome color
ALL ITS OWN
To NOT doom our fate by calling her _______ 2.0
This 8 letter name has been trained to never be abbreviated
but that doesn’t stop me from sucking each syllable down to pet sounds
In lieu of latex,
What about a tender Christmas?
We can put our reputations in jars
Make Moldova cocktails that kill
the neighbor-haters
neighboring every star
Excuse me miss, but I must go
tattoo romance
on the sooty window
of your parked-if-you-can-even-call-it-that
car