Literature
alarm clock paradox.
you stripped your sweater to
show me your freckles,
and oh how i'd love to peel them off,
because you're no swan, lovely--
not with those small brown accidents
kissing your every inch of
sympathetic skin
when they should be
kissing every inch of mine.
the stars
formed a coalition
to sign a petition
to ban you from
the sky, but i
thoroughly object;
what else could i wish on?
when you're alone, you'll always
lust for the bedroom door
to lock you in forevermore,
to lock me out forevermore;
that way you're safe to be the
sweet nothing that you see--
the ghostling in the mirror.
you're still just one
of those dirty little