71.

spend your days
off with me
teach me how to stop
writing when I'm drunk
and help me
understand why this song
seems to breathe me
better than my own
lungs

you say any other
name and I close my
doors and within ten
minutes you have kicked
them down again
with some half-glance

and did I mention
that I am still
wearing your smoke
around my waist or
that it smells like you
beneath my
arms and legs?

spend your days off
with me because
those are the days
you can spend with anyone
and I can wait