is it far?   she asks

 

it’s nice the way she bites her lip

it is nice the way her hair is a mess

that she does not bother

 

it is nice that she smells like sweet peas and sweat

that this is the way she must look in the morning

 

nice she must sleep in an old football jersey

nice to think of the sounds she would make

 

nice if we could be strangers together 

faces where summer left light green lipstick 

 

is it far? she asks

 

nice she is only

nothing more,

 

no, not far

up the road apiece

 

 

 

 

 

(-co-authored by etouffee)

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