Domino Psychoanalysis With Her

One tiny thing.

Perhaps the tiniest.

Like that last ‘really needed drop of milk’ now soured.

Serenades of ice cream truck jingle one (hundred-and-one)

more

bless-ed

tiiiiime,

on top of Daddy’s inherited acid reflux

feeds contagious volumes.

Slips a glass tumbler from her hand.

Drip-dregs love from her heart

Ring-a-lings a phone 24/7 (but no social calls)

dogbarkingneighborsfussingsupperburningnervesfraying

bathroom FUNKING!

Then,

Mathematics turns cruel.

Life’s parallel lines break format and

shove her off on a 60˚godforsaken gradient absent friction

formulae

foundation

frickin’ meds.

So,

entities converge, (don’t they always?)

Compare notes and proclaim a

‘We-should-do-this-more-often’ Party

while her ivory linen dress snags,

threatening rip-exposure at muscular thighs

ever faithful to morning HIIT routines.

Cluelessness,

that previously unknown devilry-accelerant as thoughts congeal,

slides inside momentum

guarantees to garner speed

given distance and time,

add in ‘last month’s over-dues,’

with a research report due next Tuesday

worth forty-six percent of the semester grade

makes for a piggyback pile on,

the antithesis of joyride

Increased body mass ratio/fat composition,

she refused to Paleo Diet,

meant accelerated frustration ripe for outsourcing,

i.e. Someone else tracking her forces,

plotting an arduous line graph to Armageddon.

About to take full brunt profanities,

surely a masculine noun

in all other languages

since even the end is late and

Goddamn! I've been waiting past forever,

and

What da hell difference can be made now?

and

I wish me and you were someone else,

*last synapse firing*

for someone who felt

of softness and warmth,

of beachfront destination solitude at this

‘wherever-the-heck-we-are.’

So that one tiny thing,

rented a mask and snorkel,

swam the coral beds,

and marvelled the kaleidoscope full of life,

too enthralled by wonder to be the start of anything.

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