You like dive bars, and so do I.
Walking away, my heels lick the road.
No one knows this city like we know this city.
From behind, you bent—
kissed the hook of my back.
Like a tree, carving your name on me.
All around me is stale water.
I look at my hands, think:
these will decay some day.
These will decay and
the things touched—
Your lids close when I look back and
I adhere my hands to the wall and wait.
Down in the cellar,
she smoked hidden cigarettes—
the atmosphere of what she wants.
I stand with the face of a dead woman, my palms up on the counter.
Sometimes you find out things on trains, I think.
Sometimes it’s very inconvenient.
{WAYY} 