Lemme stick to something sweet

sugar on my hands and feet

Sugarfish San Vicente

sugar sugar in my teeth

from your kiss you texting me

from the movie theater seat

Dodger Stadium Slurpee

white confection in the sea

powder waves froth over me

A fortune teller once told me

do things that you think are sweet and a sweet man is sure to

follow.

So I made a bath that night of honey

dipped my toes in rose and money

stayed all night in that bathwater

even some I swallowed.

Now there’s so much sugar on me

I can’t keep the bees off of me

even most of my thoughts are charming

some are blue and borrowed

Sugar sugar lips and teeth

fingertips touch emojis

hard forever

hearts on fleek

bb please come over

ringtone

I put my third phone in the waistband of my leggings

only u have this number

6 plus vibrates with your own ringtone

i smile when i hear simulated children laughing

cause i know it’s u

it’s the little things that make me smile

i keep them just for myself

i like u so much

but it makes me nervous when u don’t call

under my breath i say

Don’t make me be resilient

i so want to be soft

if u let me be myself

u will be the first one who ever did.

In the flats of Melrose

What will it take for me not to feel like the train will

run away with me bound up like the sad heroine tied to the last

car

What will it take for me not to need you

so I can just have you for fun

and for who you really are

Not you as the savior

not me as Ophelia

not us putting our faith in the public’s dark art

Topanga on Sunday?

two cats in the yard

NPR rumbling quietly

a fire in the hearth

me with a knowingness deep in my heart

that nothing could stop me no valley too far

to walk through in darkness to keep us apart.

And that we don’t need fighting to find resolution

that not every marriage ends in the dissolution

that I don’t need you

but I want you

because you’re so cool

and I’m not that damaged

and ur not hell-bent on being some indie director

or whatever pipe dream you and your friends are smoking

That it’s enough just for us

to be sitting in the flats of Melrose

my heart on fire

a tallboy cracked open

I love you Josiah

I’m sorry I’m still broken

but I could still make you happy.

Let’s pour one out

to knowing

not hoping

Thanks to the Locals