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yearning (for robin)
I’m contemplating sleeping on my couch tonight, and imagining it is yours.
It’s midnight and my stomach hurts and I’m sure it's just hunger,
but I want more than food.
I feel like a dog waiting for you to get home from school. -
Big Bird
Caroll Spinney spent 57% of his life as Big Bird.
He died a year after he retired.
I think if his body had let him, Caroll might have died in that suit. -
the essay
i should be editing an essay right now,
for an old white man to approve of.
tonight my brain feels like running,
my body feels like laying still.
sometimes when i see my name written down -
A Love Poem (maybe)
Maybe someday I will be on your bedroom floor.
Maybe you will wake up, and I will be doing push-ups,
or painting my nails,
or doing something a man would find sexy.
Or maybe I won’t be. Maybe I will be ugly and terrible, -
boots
there is no creature i love more
than the cat inside a hardware store -
tomorrow
tomorrow i will have therapy
and maybe the thoughts in my head will spin a little slower
and my emails will be read
and it will be a new week.