Second and 10th
Choose a lipstick that reminds him
of your lips. It’s no different
than jeans that wear you raw
make you drylove the gusset
inside a shitty diner.
Look, here goes precisely
⅕ of your paycheck. Vanish
like sugar water
and come back when you’re ready
for another drink. There will always be
a next time. Let the German man
speak you honest silence
in the space between his teeth.
Actually he’s Austrian. Pardon
your ignorance it’s just learning
to distinguish the subtleties,
the cues. If he loves a good night out
he loves a bad night in.
If he sells the farm he'll only keep
one horse. Remember
you’re an adult, you upgraded
to stallion. This is not about you,
really, unless you count the taxi
and the hardening resolves
the breath inside a body
as it holds, holds, then blows itself out.
⅕ of your paycheck. Vanish
like sugar water
and come back when you’re ready
for another drink. There will always be
a next time. Let the German man
speak you honest silence
in the space between his teeth.
Actually he’s Austrian. Pardon
your ignorance it’s just learning
to distinguish the subtleties,
the cues. If he loves a good night out
he loves a bad night in.
If he sells the farm he'll only keep
one horse. Remember
you’re an adult, you upgraded
to stallion. This is not about you,
really, unless you count the taxi
and the hardening resolves
the breath inside a body
as it holds, holds, then blows itself out.