Wednesday, November 4, 2020

For Keyra

 Moving and Sex


Those are probably my two best skills if I had to rank them

I have become expert at peeling posters off the wall

Tetris-ing boxes into my car

My great-grandma's collapsable table

That only fits in one of the back seat doors

This is a puzzle to which I have memorized the curves


Sex is more like a cypher

Sliding and changing

But I can find a clitoris blindfolded 

Which you know because you've seen me do it twice


As long as we're ranking things

You are the first great love of my life

I have shared food, porn, a home, a few lovers, and so much lipstick with you. 

I can hear the sound of your laugh when I close my eyes

Our relationship is the tides and the ebb and flow can occasionally drive one or both of us into the sands

But like the water to the beach, we will never be apart


You have been a part of each home I have made

A pice of your art, a card from you, a picture of you always on thumb-tacked to the wall

You have known every heart-break and good lay I've wrecked from here to California

You know the lines of me like a poem you've had memorized since you were twelve

You will always be my first great love. 


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