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And I really don't care

Alison Daniel

if the lights are on or off, if we're in the kitchen
or the bedroom, half-naked or fully disrobed at six
or seven when we should be thinking about other things
and I really don't care for this position or that particular
slant of events like the time we did it outside and
I really don't care for a hotel bed in another country
where we memorized exotic smells before and after
we'd eaten downstairs and you said you'd like to talk
about the suppleness of scent, how it curves like hips
traced by fingertips before you fall asleep and dreams
curl under your lids the way a woman's lipstick
is another shade when it's two in the morning and
you're drinking from her lips and I really don't care
if it takes fifteen minutes or thirty days, if the sheets
are cotton or silk or semen stained and dripping
wet as long as I see dilated eyes speaking our sex
when you tell me there is nothing left.

 


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