jayivan

I prefer to date friends.
Don’t schedule me in between 7 and 8:45,
Don’t leave time to make your next a p p t.
Don’t leave me. Whatever you do.
Let’s do one thing fulfilling,
And then another imprisoning.
Let’s scale walls and dance down hall-
Ways to be and not be undoing our days.
We stay up late and wait and wait and wait
For a moment of insight after midnight
Limbs adrift
Hearts enriched

Sitting at center,
the long table emptied of
blank conversation

let down your fly,
tuck my hand inside,
and then—
skin on skin,
we binge

Stoned on 19th
Taxi to 34th
Makers rocks row F
Diiv in
My Birthday Valentine

before the rumble
of radiators, the Still
reigns a dimming dawn