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i.
once, I did not understand
the riot
of a not-quite,
maybe-never-will
touch –
sleep, hovering
just there,
pleasure in denial.

ii.
Wendy’s parking lot
watching someone
watching Princess Bride
in their second floor apartment
and you know man,
it’s one of those infinite moments
where you have to just
dunk your fry
in the Frosty
and say I do not think it means
what you think it means.
(we might be the men in shirtsleeves
but not lonely not now
leaning in.)

iii.
we go out because
the time left
is as short as
the distance will be long
and there’s nothing like a bar
on a Monday night
to make you feel
apocalyptically alive,
struggle-joined with the other
heavy-jacketed, smoke-curtained
defiers of the law
of the weekend.

iv.
the liminal
fallen lids
double-bass
60 oz. taurine
might just
heart-
stop

v.
no one ever gets to the end
and wishes they’d slept more.

Description
i.
once, I did not understand
the riot
of a not-quite,
maybe-never-will
touch –
sleep, hovering
just there,
pleasure in denial.

ii.
Wendy’s parking lot
watching someone
watching Princess Bride
in their second floor apartment
and you know man,
it’s one of those infinite moments
where you have to just
dunk your fry
in the Frosty
and say I do not think it means
what you think it means.
(we might be the men in shirtsleeves
but not lonely not now
leaning in.)

iii.
we go out because
the time left
is as short as
the distance will be long
and there’s nothing like a bar
on a Monday night
to make you feel
apocalyptically alive,
struggle-joined with the other
heavy-jacketed, smoke-curtained
defiers of the law
of the weekend.

iv.
the liminal
fallen lids
double-bass
60 oz. taurine
might just
heart-
stop

v.
no one ever gets to the end
and wishes they’d slept more.