Rachel

17

I used to want to get to know
the insides of you
but now it’s august
and I’m over that.

instead I would like to know
your favorite junk food and the worst
TV show you watch
if it’s long island medium or 90210 or
the bachelor and if you say it’s
desperate housewives I will be upset
because desperate housewives is a great fucking show.
I want to know your favorite porn site
and whether you do dumb things like
read your horoscope or need to see
the weather every morning or if you are secretly
horrible at pool or if you can’t
stand kumquats.

isn’t it unfair how well
your hand fits with my hand?

and how you laugh at all
my jokes and have perfect
skin and make me think of
trees and greasy green booth diners
on a highway?

I’m done with all this
tenderness

isn’t it unfair how
people are so tender? how my head
slips like moss into your shoulder
and people keep on touching each other
all around me, on the forearm
and the cheek, and insisting
they aren’t lonely? I like my body
when it is with your body,
and some of the people
paying tolls at the bridge and
at a Chinese restaurant and wearing indigo and
kissing